The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel Compact Disc Book

Description: The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel, Joseph Kloska The long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantels Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. FORMAT Compact Disc CONDITION Brand New Publisher Description Soon to be a major TV seriesThe Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Womens Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker PrizeIt is a book not read, but lived TelegraphMantel has taken us to the dark heart of history … and what a show The TimesThe Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantels Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy.If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmiths son from Putney emerges from the springs bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour.Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henrys regime to breaking point, Cromwells robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common mans vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage.A Guardian Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year • A New Statesman Book of the Year • A Spectator Book of the Year Sunday Times Bestseller (08/03/2020) Author Biography Dame Hilary Mantel was one of the greatest English novelists of our time, best known for her epic The Wolf Hall Trilogy. She won the Man Booker Prize twice, for Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, which also won the 2012 Costa Book of the Year. The conclusion of the trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was an instant number one bestseller and winner of the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, which she had also won for Wolf Hall. Mantel is the author of fourteen other acclaimed books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Review Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall novels make 99 per cent of contemporary literary fiction feel utterly pale and bloodless by comparison The TimesHilary Mantel has written an epic of English history that does what the Aeneid did for the Romans and War and Peace for the Russians. We are lucky to have it. Sunday TelegraphVery few writers manage not just to excavate the sedimented remains of the past, but bring them up again into the light and air so that they shine brightly once more before us. Hilary Mantel has done just that. Simon Schama, Financial TimesA masterpiece that will keep yielding its riches, changing as its readers change, going forward with us into the future GuardianThe most masterful story telling imaginable Graham NortonThe final book in the trilogy charts [Cromwells] inexorable downfall with the dark brilliance and profound humanity that makes it, like its forerunners, a masterpiece Daily MailAmbitious, compassionate, clear-eyed yet emotional, passionate and pragmatic, The Mirror & the Light lays down a marker for historical fiction that will set the standard for generations to come IndependentIts the crowning glory of a towering achievement Mail on SundayThis is a must-read Good HousekeepingOn closing the book I wept as Ive not wept over a novel since I was a child . . . Mantel struck her spear against the flint of Thomas Cromwell, and lit such a candle in England as will never go outTelegraph, Sarah Perry,A masterpiece . . . Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of . . . Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century Observer, Stephanie Merritt Promotional The conclusion to the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy, soon to be a major TV series Details ISBN000836673X Author Joseph Kloska Year 2020 ISBN-10 000836673X ISBN-13 9780008366735 Format Compact Disc Series The Wolf Hall Trilogy Publication Date 2020-03-12 UK Release Date 2020-03-12 Playing time 698 Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd Place of Publication London Country of Publication United Kingdom AU Release Date 2020-03-12 NZ Release Date 2020-03-12 Narrator Joseph Kloska Publisher HarperCollins Publishers Edition Description Abridged edition Alternative 9780007480999 Audience General We've got this At The Nile, if you're looking for it, we've got it. 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