Wolf Hall (2009) is a historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels".
The book is the first in a trilogy; the sequel Bring Up the Bodies was published in 2012. The last book in the trilogy is The Mirror and the Light (2020), which covers the last four years of Cromwell's life.
Genres
- Biographical fiction
- Fiction
- History
- Man Booker Prize Winner
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- award:national_book_critics_circle_award=2009
- award:man_booker_prize=2009
- New York Times bestseller
- Historical Fiction
- National Book Critics Circle Award Winner
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- Fictional Works
- National book critics circle award
- Fiction, historical
- Great britain, fiction
- Interpersonal relations
- Court and courtiers
- Courts and courtiers
- Politik
- New York Times reviewed
- Fiction, historical, general
- Historischer Roman
- Englisch
- Romans, nouvelles
- Histoire
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