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    Bring Up the Bodies

    Hilary Mantel · 2012

    Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning Wolf Hall; and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII. It won the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the 2012 Costa Book of the Year. The final novel in the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was published in March 2020.

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    6mentions
    5people
    2012–2024years
    83% recommend17% neutral

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    1. nayrocladeAug 2024
      The audiobooks of the Wolf Hall trilogy are fantastic as well. They're read by Ben Miles, who played Cromwell in the RSC adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, and collaborated directly with Mantel on the stage adaptation of the Mirror & The Light. His take on the character is excellent, far superior to Mark Rylance in the TV version, who I thought was badly miscast.
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    2. shooJul 2018
      Hilary Mantel - "Wolf Hall" & "Bring Up The Bodies".

      Excellent fiction. You're worth it.

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    3. shooDec 2017
      Hilary Mantel's novels "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies"
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    4. alina24Jul 2014
      Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall" and "Bring Up the Bodies" - historical fiction. Brilliantly imagined life of Thomas Cromwell - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell,_1st_Earl_of_Es...
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    5. mpesceJul 2012
      Bring Up The Bodies
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    6. cafardMar 2021
      Since about the beginning of the year:

      Russia Leaves the War, George Kennan (WW I); The Fate of Man in the Modern World, Nikolai Berdyaev; Philosophy of Logic, W.V.O. Quine; Marrow and Bone, Walter Kempowski; White Teeth, Zadie Smith; Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel; Writing and Difference, Jacques Derrida; Cartesian Meditations, Edmund Husserl (not quite to the end).

      White Teeth is charming, and I will read more of Smith's work fairly soon. As for Kempowski's novel, I don't know that I'm a feminist, but the women in his novels (this and All for Nothing) seem to run to the ineffectual.

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