Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel [Paperback]

Named a Top 10 Best Book of the Year byThe New York Times,Publishers Weekly, andThe Washington Post
In the sequel toWolf Hall,Man Booker Prize-winner andNew York Timesbestseller Hilary Mantel delves the heart of Tudor history and the downfall of Anne Boleyn.

The basis for the TV show on BBC and PBSMasterpiecestarring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.

At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel'sBring Up the Bodiesfollows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head?

Hilary Mantelwas the author of the bestselling novelWolf Halland its sequel,Bring Up the Bodies, which both won the Booker Prize. The final novel of the Wolf Hall trilogy,The Mirror & the Light, debuted at #1 onThe New York Timesbestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoirGiving Up the Ghost, and she was awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction, the Walter Scott Prize, the Costa Book Award, the Hawthornden Prize, and many other accolades. In 2014, Mantel was appointed Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire. lã(