Wolf Hall

WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 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 mana charmer and a bullyboth idealist and opportunistastute in reading peopleand implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tenderone day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the oppositionbut what will be the price of his triumph? In inimitable styleHilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is \