The Wolf Hall Picture Book

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Thomas Cromwell, the chief minister to Henry VIII who oversaw the break with Rome and the dissolution of the monasteries, was widely hated in his lifetime, and he makes a surprising fictional hero now.

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In 1990 she was elected as a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature; in 2006 she was awarded a CBE and in 2014 a DBE.There was the juxtaposition of: extracts from the Wolf Hall trilogy, deleted scenes from the trilogy and modern photographs taken at places mentioned in the books. You are challenged to look more both at and around and inside the pictures to get a sense of place , both past and present.

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Geoffrey Elton used to argue that he founded modern government, but later historians have pared back his role, and one recent biographer, Robert Hutchinson, portrayed him as a corrupt proto-Stalinist. Only last month I sat with her on a sunny afternoon in Devon, while she talked excitedly about the new novel she had embarked on. The effortless-seeming management of contrasting registers plays a big part in the novel's success, as does Mantel's decision to let Cromwell have a sense of humour. At that stage, with The Mirror and the Light, the third in her trilogy, still several years from completion, “there was a long, long way to go.Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were adapted for a Royal Shakespeare Company stage production in 2013, a process in which the author was very involved. And the precarious nature of early modern life is brought home by the abrupt deaths of Cromwell's wife and daughters, carried off by successive epidemics in moving but unsentimentally staged scenes. The author experienced chronic illness throughout her adult life, having a severe form of endometriosis, surgery for which left her unable to have children.