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0007480997 
Hardback The mirror & the light / Hilary Mantel
Year: 2020
Interest category: Historical novels
Media class: Hardback
Category: Fiction
Publisher: 4th Estate, 2020
Volume: Cromwell
ISBN: 0007480997 9780007480999
Control number 0007480997
Description:
'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 blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. 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 Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's 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?
Great Britain, History, Henry VIII, 1509-1547, Fiction
Historical fiction, lcsh
HST, Historical
Currently available 62
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£25.00
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Well this was absolutely worth the wait! Cromwell is perfectly judged and we learn in this novel how he has shaped his own destiny through quick wit, loyalty and low cunning. The book is a triumph of historical and human detail. We know many of the characters from history, but Mantel gives them life. Anyone who enjoyed the previous 2 books in the trilogy will love this.
08/04/20
0008381690 
Paperback 
Year: 2019
Language: English
Interest category: Historical novels
Media class: Paperback
Publisher: 4th Estate
xxiii, 653 pages, illustrations (black and white) ; 20 cm (pbk)
Brings a huge amount of humanity to dusty old dungeons and creaky wooden corridors
28/02/20
0007580991
Paperback
Year: 2015
Language: English
Interest category: General fiction novels
Media class: Paperback
Content type: Bibliography, Short story
Publisher: Fourth Estate
288 pages ; 20 cm (pbk)
All of our book group found this a really interesting book of short stories. Every story is very di
04/01/16
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1405613629
Large print
Year: 2006
Language: English
Interest category: Large Print
Media class: Large print
Edition: Large print ed
Classification: FIC
Publisher: Windsor