Bring Up the Bodies

from LizzieD

In her author's note Hilary Mantel says, "...I try to show how a few crucial weeks might have looked from Thomas Cromwell's point of view. I am not claiming authority for my version; I am making the reader a proposal, an offer." That is an offer that this grateful reader of an Early Reviewers' AR...

from brenzi

Those Tudors are at it again! And Hilary Mantel's follow-up to her Man Booker Prize winning Wolf Hall is just the vehicle to put them on display at their conniving, scheming, devious worst. But then again, this isn't a story about the Tudors, per se, but rather a character study of Thomas Cromwel...

from Smiler69

The second instalment in the Wolf Hall trilogy takes place in the now familiar court of Henry VIII, with a king who has become disenchanted with wife #2, Anne Boleyn. There's the fact that she has failed to produce a male heir, and there's also the problem that HVIII isn't so keen on giving it an...

from markm2315

Book 2 in this trilogy - so far a masterpiece. If anything, it is more gripping than book 1 (as mentioned by FPP). As is always the case in great works, we see ourselves.

from lit_chick

It's 1535, and Henry VIII has tired of his second wife, Anne Boleyn. She has failed to do what she promised: produce a male heir. As is his wont, the king now has his eye on the plain, simple, young virgin, Jane Seymour. The difficulty is, of course, that in order to have Anne, Henry split with R...