Wolf Hall
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Published in 2009, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall reimagines the Tudor court through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, the son of a Putney blacksmith who rises to become one of Henry VIII’s most influential advisers. As the King seeks to annul his marriage to Catherine of Aragon and marry Anne Boleyn, Cromwell navigates a world of religious upheaval, political intrigue and dangerous loyalties, where a misplaced word can alter the course of a life. Mantel brings into focus a figure long cast as a villain, tracing the intelligence, ambition and resourcefulness behind his extraordinary ascent.
The first volume of Mantel’s celebrated Thomas Cromwell trilogy, Wolf Hall won the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. Its achievement lies not simply in its meticulous recreation of sixteenth-century England, but in its vivid understanding of how history is made through private motives, shifting allegiances and the exercise of power. Written with remarkable psychological subtlety and an alertness to the texture of everyday life, it is a defining work of contemporary historical fiction.
From the book
“Some of these things are true and some of them lies. But they are all good stories.”
— Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall
On Wolf Hall
“A beautiful and profoundly humane book, a dark mirror held up to our own world.”
— Olivia Laing, The Guardian