The Wolf Hall Picture Book

Praise for the Wolf Hall trilogy The most masterful story telling imaginable Graham Norton Very few writers manage not just to excavate the sedimented remains of the past, but bring them up again into the light and air so that they shine brightly once more before us. Hilary Mantel has done just that Simon Schama, Financial Times Hilary Mantels Wolf Hall novels make 99 per cent of contemporary literary fiction feel utterly pale and bloodless by comparison The Times So original and disconcerting that it will surely come to be seen as a paradigm-shifter Sunday Telegraph Hers are books that refuse to shy away from the underside of life Hilary Mantel is one of our bravest as well as our most brilliant writers Olivia Laing, Observer It is the making of our English world, and who can fail to be stirred by it? Helen Dunmore, author of Birdcage Walk Succeeds brilliantly in every particle its an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives Spectator Mantel in the voice of Cromwell is inspired. When she is in full flow as a novelist, creating scenes and inventing dialogue, she is more convincing than rendering a recorded scene from history Philippa Gregory, Sunday Express Mantel has redefined what the historical novel is capable of . . . Taken together, her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century Observer, Stephanie Merritt

Hilary Mantel is the author of fifteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost, and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize. Ben Miles is an actor whose association with Thomas Cromwell began in 2013, playing him in the stage adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. In 2020, he co-wrote the stage adaptation of The Mirror And The Light with Hilary Mantel, appearing again as Cromwell in the play the following year. George Miles is an artist whose photographs focus on our relationship to place and the everyday. He has published numerous photography books, and his work is exhibited and held in collections around the world.