Bring Up the Bodies

Author: Mantel, Hilary

Historical fiction

Published on 7 November 2024 by HarperCollins Publishers (Fourth Estate Ltd) in the United Kingdom as part of 'The Wolf Hall Trilogy' series.

Paperback | 432 pages
197 x 130 x 42 | 458g

Now a major TV series

Winner of the Man Booker Prize

Winner of the Costa Book of the Year

Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction

‘Simply exceptional…I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it’

Daily Mail

‘A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror’

Independent on Sunday

Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chief minister. With Henry captivated by plain Jane Seymour and rumours of Anne Boleyn’s faithlessness whispered by all, Cromwell knows what he must do to secure his position. But the bloody theatre of the queen’s final days will leave no one unscathed …

Heralded as the greatest English novels of this century, the Wolf Hall trilogy has won two Booker Prizes and been adapted into hugely successful stage plays. The first two books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, were transformed into a BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning BBC television series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. The cast now returns in the long-awaited concluding series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light.