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Wolf Hall Now in Paperback
Just a quick post to let you all know that the Man Booker Prize winning “Wolf Hall” by Hilary Mantel is now available in the USA in paperback, published by Picador (Macmillan). It’s great timing for...
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Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
Just a quickie post to alert those of you who haven’t heard to the changes in publication date of the sequel to Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel. Here are the dates:- UK – Hardback...
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Anne Boleyn’s Fall and Me
As you know, I was counting down, day by day, to Anne Boleyn’s execution on The Fall of Anne Boleyn timeline. Well, by this time in 1536 Anne was dead and gone and was about to be replaced by a new...
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Bring Up the Bodies – The Facts Behind the Fiction
Since Hilary Mantel’s novel Bring Up the Bodies has been published, I have been inundated with emails asking me if I was going to review it and also asking me whether certain things are true. Well, I’m...
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Wolf Hall to Be Adapted for TV by the BBC
I’ve just heard that Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is to be adapted for television for the UK TV channel BBC 2. You can read more about it in The Telegraph’s article – Wolf Hall is to be a BBC Drama Who do...
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The Last Days of Anne Boleyn – A Review and Rundown
I thought I’d write a review (well, more of a rundown) of the BBC2 programme The Last Days of Anne Boleyn for those of you who missed it or are unable to see it. I sat scribbling notes as fast as I...
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The Spitefully Ambitious Anne Boleyn
Earlier today, Susan Bordo, author of The Creation of Anne Boleyn, drew attention on her Facebook wall to a review of the RSC stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.1...
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Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies Plays Review by Marcia Wadham
Thank you so much to Marcia Wadham for writing this wonderful review of the RSC’s adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies… Hilary Mantel’s books are wonderfully brought...
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Wolf Hall and Cardinal Wolsey going down to Hell
The masque scene from BBC2’s Wolf HallIf you haven’t read Hilary Mantel’s novels, don’t know the history surrounding the farce “Cardinal Wolsely going down to Hell” and haven’t watched episode 2 of...
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