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Bring Up the Bodies

by Hilary Mantel · 2012

Historical Fiction · ranked #5 in category

Winner · The Booker Prize, 2012Winner · The Costa Book of the Year, 2012

Cromwell engineers the fall of Anne Boleyn; tense, brilliant and even sharper than its predecessor.

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The verdict

Category
Historical Fiction
First published
2012 · 2010s
Author
Hilary Mantel
Standing
Recommended

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