The Wolf Hall Trilogy

 Hilary Mantel"'s Wolf Hall Trilogy - Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light - traces the life of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power in Henry VIII"'s Tudor England. It offers a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man"'s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. "'The greatest English novels of this century"' Observer "'Mantel has taken us to the dark heart of history ... and what a show"' The Times "'A masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches"' Guardian