Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall is a 2009 historical novel by English author Hilary Mantel, published by Fourth Estate, named after the Seymour family's seat of Wolfhall, or Wulfhall, in Wiltshire. Set in the period from 1500 to 1535, Wolf Hall is a sympathetic fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More. The novel won both the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. In 2012, The Observer named it as one of "The 10 best historical novels".

Wolf Hall
AuthorHilary Mantel
Audio read bySimon Slater (2009)
Ben Miles (2020)
CountryUnited Kingdom
LanguageEnglish
GenreHistorical fiction
PublisherFourth Estate (UK)
Publication date
30 April 2009
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages672
ISBN0-00-723018-4
823.92
LC ClassPR6063.A438 W65 2009
Followed byBring Up the Bodies 

The book is the first in a trilogy; the sequel Bring Up the Bodies was published in 2012. The last book in the trilogy is The Mirror and the Light (2020), which covers the last four years of Cromwell's life.

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