Signed 1St Edition

Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012

Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012
Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012
Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012
Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012
Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012
Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012
Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012

Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012
Like the self-titled first part, this book won the Booker Prize (2009 and 2012 respectively), making her the first woman to win the prize twice and only the 4th author to have done so (now the 5th after Margaret Atwood's shared win in 2019). Dame Hilary Mantel sadly passed away on 22 September 2022 aged 70, which led to a wave of literary tributes for an author who was one of the most important of the 21st Century to date. Bring Up The Bodies', published in 2012 by Fourth Estate, London, 1st edition, large modern hardback, [xviii] + 411 pages. Flat hand signed by Hilary Mantel at the title page. Internally in very fine unread condition. Externally in near fine+ condition, recently obtained from Topping Books, tightly bound, very light storage wear at spine ends, some light general edge wear to dustjacket, crinkling from storage wear at upper front gutter and upper rear corner (mainly to rear inner flap). Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year.

With this historic win for. Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes. By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king's new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour.

Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne's final days. Is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. This is a bloody story about the death of Anne Boleyn, but Hilary Mantel is a writer who thinks through the blood. She uses her power of prose to create moral ambiguity and the real uncertainty of political life. She has recast the most essential period of our modern English history; we have the greatest modern English prose writer reviving possibly one of the best known pieces of English history' Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012.

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  • Binding: Hardback
  • Place of Publication: London
  • Language: English
  • Fiction Subject: Historical & Mythological
  • Special Attributes: Signed, 1st Edition, Dust Jacket
  • Author: Hilary Mantel
  • Publisher: Fourth Estate
  • Country/Region of Manufacture: United Kingdom
  • Modified Item: No
  • Weight: 0.8kg unpacked
  • Year Printed: 2012


Hilary Mantel Bring Up The Bodies Signed 1st printing Booker Prize winner 2012