Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.
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<strong>Praise for <em>Wolf Hall</em>:</strong>
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<p>‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good . . . Hugely exciting, packed full of power struggles and political machinations, but also delightfully poetic, vivid in image and phrase. <strong>A rich and subtle wonder</strong>’ <em>Daily Mail</em></p>
<p>‘Beautifully written and terrifying fiction. <strong>She makes that world so concrete you can smell the rain-drenched wool cloaks and feel the sharp fibres of rushes underfoot.</strong> It’s a world of marvels’ <em>Daily Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>As soon as I opened this book I was gripped.</strong> I read it almost non-stop. When I did have to put it down, I was full of regret the story was over, a regret I still feel’ <em>The Times</em></p>
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<strong>Praise for <em>Bring Up the Bodies</em>:</strong>
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<p><strong>‘The greatest modern English prose writer writing today</strong>’ Peter Stothard, Chairman of the 2012 Man Booker Prize</p>
<p>‘In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIII’s right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read . . . <strong>A staggering achievement</strong>’ <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘Darkly magnificent . . . <strong>the finest work of historical fiction in contemporary literature</strong>’ <em>Washington Post</em></p>
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<strong>Praise for <em>The Mirror and the Light</em>:</strong>
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<p>‘Hilary Mantel has written an epic of English history that <strong>does what the<em> Aeneid </em>did for the Romans and <em>War and Peace </em>for the Russians</strong>. We are lucky to have it.’ <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p>
<p>‘Very few writers manage not just to excavate the sedimented remains of the past, but bring them up again into the light and air so that they shine brightly once more before us. Hilary Mantel has done just that.’ Simon Schama, <em>Financial Times</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>A masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches, changing as its readers change, going forward with us into the future</strong>’ <em>Guardian</em></p>
Now a major TV series
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012
Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012
A boxed set of hardback editions of the bestselling and award winning trilogy: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy – Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light – traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power in Henry VIII's Tudor England. It offers a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.
‘The greatest English novels of this century’ Observer
‘Mantel has taken us to the dark heart of history … and what a show’ The Times
‘A masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches’ Guardian
The Booker Prize-winning and bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series
• Described by James Daunt as the publishing event of our lifetime, The Mirror & the Light has sold 450,000 copies in its first ten weeks
• ‘A masterpiece . . . Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of . . . Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer
• Presented in their stunning new hardback livery, with head and tail bands and ribbon markers, collected together in a gold-foiled box
• Combined sales of all three novels – all Sunday Times number one bestsellers – are over 3 million copies
• Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies both won the Man Booker Prize; Wolf Hall voted the greatest book of this century by the Guardian; Bring Up the Bodies won the Costa Book of the Year; The Mirror & the Light critically received as a masterpiece and shortlisted for The Women’s Prize for Fiction
Competition: The;Wolf Hall;Bring up the Bodies;Testaments;Handmaid’s Tale;American Dirt;girl, woman, other;A place of Greater Safety;The Evening and the Morning. By;Hilary Mantel;Margaret Atwood;Philippa Gregory;Bill Bryson;Robert Harris;ken follett;Alison Weir;Kate Atkinson
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.