Wolf Hall

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION

In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel's New York Times bestselling Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston Globe).

The basis for the TV series on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

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 man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph?

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Henry Holt & Company
Published: 10/13/2009
Pages: 560
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.65lbs
Size: 9.40h x 6.60w x 1.90d
ISBN: 9780805080681

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 5.6
Point Value: 34
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 136471 / Wolf Hall


Award: Man Booker Prize - Winner
Award: National Book Critics Circle Award - Winner
Award: Costa Book Awards - Nominee
Award: Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction - Nominee
Award: Indies Choice Book Awards - Honor Book


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/01/2009 pg. 59
London Review of Books 04/30/2009 pg. 3
Publishers Weekly 08/17/2009 pg. 40
Kirkus Reviews 09/01/2009
Booklist 09/15/2009 pg. 32
Library Journal 09/15/2009 pg. 51
Entertainment Weekly 10/23/2009 pg. 63
New York Review of Books 11/05/2009 pg. 22
People Weekly 10/26/2009 pg. 51
Commonweal 10/23/2009 pg. 33
New York Times Book Review 11/01/2009 pg. 10
New York Times Book Review 11/08/2009 pg. 34
Time 11/30/2009 pg. 83
NY Times Notable Bks of Year 12/06/2009 pg. 21
LJ Best Books of Year 12/15/2009 pg. 53
New Yorker (The) 12/14/2009 pg. 85
Time 12/21/2009 pg. 89
People Weekly 12/28/2009 pg. 68
Books & Culture 05/01/2010 pg. 32
People 01/09/2012 pg. 47
New Yorker (The) 05/07/2012 pg. 71
New Yorker (The) 10/15/2012 pg. 46
BookPage 10/01/2009

About the Author
Hilary Mantel was the author of the bestselling novel Wolf Hall and 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 on the New York Times bestseller list and won world-wide critical acclaim. Mantel wrote seventeen celebrated books, including the memoir Giving 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. She died at age seventy in 2022.