Wolf Hall

By Hilary Mantel

Categories: History, Literature & Fiction

In 1520s England, Thomas Cromwell, the son of a brutal blacksmith, rises through wit and ruthlessness to become Henry VIII's chief minister as the king seeks to annul his marriage and wed Anne Boleyn. The first novel in Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning Cromwell trilogy.

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• John Green: “Crash Course: World History fans who enjoy fiction, let me recommend two very long books that you will not regret reading, Wolf Hall and The Astonishing Life of Octavian Nothing.”