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Name: Wolf Hall

Author: Hilary Mantel
Year: 2009
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Historical fiction, Award winners, Contemporary

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ISBNs:
9780312429980
0312429983
0007230184

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

This book is part of the "Thomas Cromwell Trilogy" series. Here are some other books from this series:

"Bring Up the Bodies"
First published in 2012
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"The Mirror & the Light"
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