We’d love your help. Oh yes, and he also has to persuade a truculent Mary to submit to her father’s wish to exclude her from the line of succession, for Henry just might decide to kill her if she poses a threat to his reign.I've been looking forward to this for ages, having loved the first two books in the series. These cookies are necessary to provide our site and services and therefore cannot be disabled. For example, we use cookies to conduct research and diagnostics to improve our content, products and services, and to measure and analyse the performance of our services., including ads relevant to your interests on Book Depository and to work with approved third parties in the process of delivering ad content, including ads relevant to your interests, to measure the effectiveness of their ads, and to perform services on behalf of Book Depository. HarperCollins As stand alones this is probably the weakest of the three but the tension of awaiting Thomas's fall from grace makes up for the absence of the more compelling characters in the first two books. Welcome back. 18,69 € And more: though it lacks the seductiveness of Wolf Hall, it gradually becomes the highpoint of the series. Mantel’s … Available. You save 8,77 € Of all the women at court it seems to me she was the one who had the most venomous (and healthiest contempt) for Henry as a man; that she was the most thwarted by the paltry opportunities offered to women in 16th century England. 14,78 € She is an artist with words, giving the reader a clear visual picture of every one of the historical characters she introduces and there are many!The Mirror and the Light, and its over-hyped reception, encapsulates everything that is rotten with the state of much of British literary fiction (some wonderful independent publishers aside):The Mirror and the Light, and its over-hyped reception, encapsulates everything that is rotten with the state of much of British literary fiction (some wonderful independent publishers aside):One reviewer knocked the book, claimed Mantel savages the royals just to sell books. Hardback 15,05 € The Mirror & the Light book. 16,68 € 24,07 €
Published I wish I could allot it the 10* rating which it deserves.It feels like we've been waiting for this one forever, but I think it's "only" five years or so. 8,93 € Dispatched from the UK in 1 business day Goodreads helps you keep track of books you want to read. by Henry Holt and Company … Was it perhaps because her and Anne were so similar that they were at loggerheads? And more: though it lacks the seductiveness of Wolf Hall, it gradually becomes the highpoint of the series. 15,19 € 159
17,52 € Simply magnificent – in my view the strongest of a Trilogy whose first two volumes were among the most deserving winners in Booker history. She is an artist with words, giving the reader a clear visual picture of every one of the historical characters she introduces and there are many!Throughout the whole of this amazing trilogy all I have been able to think about is what an incredible man Thomas Cromwell must have been and how well Hilary Mantel has portrayed him for us. currency or language preferences), and display features, products and services (e.g. I constantly found myself wishing Hilary had taken more interest in her. Or maybe, like me, people are old and are afraid they will never find out whether Thomas Cromwell dies at the end. 8,95 €
I couldn't help feeling that it was with a riotous fatalistic glee that she eventually encouraged Catherine Howard to cuckold Henry. 15,37 € (11,244 ratings by Goodreads) 20,83 € It does not disappoint.