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Wolf HallHilary MantelPublisher's RRP: $32.99 Sale Price: $21.99 Free shipping on orders over $45! 
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Annotation A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII. Publisher Description A magisterial new novel that takes us behind the scenes during one of the most formative periods in English history: the reign of Henry VIII. Wolf Hall is told mainly through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, a self-made man who rose from a blacksmith's son in Putney to be the most powerful man in England after the king. The cast also includes Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas More, Anne Boleyn and Henry's other wives - and, of course, King Henry himself. It was a time when a half-made society was making itself with great passion and suffering and courage; a time when those involved in the art of the possible were servants to masters only interested in glorious gestures; a time when the very idea of social progress, and of a better world, was fresh, alien and threatening. It was a time of men who weren't like us, but who were creating us Author Biography Hilary Mantel is the author of seven other novels: 'Every Day is Mother's Day' (1985), 'Vacant Possession' (1986), 'Eight Months on Ghazzah Street' (1988), 'Fludd' (1989), 'A Place of Greater Safety' (1992, winner of the 'Sunday Express' Book of the Year Award), 'A Change of Climate' (1994) and 'An Experiment in Love' (1995). After living abroad for a decade, in Africa and Saudi Arabia, she returned to Britain in 1986. |
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Customer Reviews
Susan P's Review of Wolf Hall
Best work of fiction I have read for years. Mantel's characters are larger than life, yet the writing is never florid or overdone as you might expect of historical fiction.I read from it from cover to cover and it is a large book! Mantel's use of old English is so cleverly done, always easy to read and the picture she paints of Cromwell is amazing. I hesitate to say it but Wolf Hill could be a marvellous film one day, hopefully done by the BBC!
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