She discusses Bring Up the Bodies with Jim and her readers at the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival in Devon - and gives tantalising insights into the final part of the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light. Hilary Mantel was the first author to win two Man Booker Prizes with consecutive novels. Mantel charts how the King begins to fall in love with the seemingly plain Jane Seymour at her family home of Wolf Hall how Cromwell must negotiate an increasingly dangerous court as he charms, bullies and manipulates nobility, commoners and foreign powers alike to satisfy Henry, and advance his own ambitions.
But Henry remains without a male heir, and the conflict with the Catholic Church has left England dangerously isolated as France and the Holy Roman Empire manoeuvre for position. He learnt everything he knew from his mentor Cardinal Wolsey, whose place he has taken.Īnne Boleyn is now Queen, her path to Henry's side cleared by Cromwell. A one-time mercenary, master-politician, lawyer and doting father, Thomas Cromwell has risen from commoner to become King Henry VIII's chief adviser. Hilary Mantel was a renowned English writer who twice won the Booker Prize, for her best-selling novel Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. But the period is enormously eventful, especially when it comes to Henry’s much scrutinized dealings with women. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy.In a special programme first broadcast in 2013, Hilary Mantel discusses Bring Up the Bodies, her second Man Booker Prize-winning novel with James Naughtie and his Bookclub audience.Įngland, 1535. Bring Up the Bodies begins in September 1535 and spans less than a year. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason.
But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice.Īt a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. It takes up where Wolf Hall left off and continues the saga of Oliver Cromwell and friends. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. Bring up the Bodies is the follow up book to Wolf Hall. The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall, delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
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