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129 produkter
Del 3 - Wolf Hall Trilogy
Mirror and the Light
Häftad, Engelska, 2021
145 kr
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Soon to be a major TV seriesThe Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker Prize ‘It is a book not read, but lived’ Telegraph ‘Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer The bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. ‘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, Jane Seymour.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? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. A Guardian Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year • A New Statesman Book of the Year • A Spectator Book of the Year Sunday Times Bestseller (08/03/2020)
Del 1 - Wolf Hall
Wolf hall
Pocket, Svenska, 2020
89 kr
England, 1530-tal, landet är en hårsmån från katastrof. Henrik den VIII vill få påven att annullera äktenskapet med Katarina för att istället äkta Anne Boleyn och få den son som kan säkra tronen åt släkten Tudor. Thomas Cromwell blir mannen som ska ordna saken. Till varje pris.
Hilary Mantels porträtt av Cromwell, sonen till en smed som blev kungens närmaste man, är en studie i makt, kärlek och politik som säger lika mycket om vår egen tid som om Tudors England.
Wolf Hall, liksom uppföljaren För in de döda, har belönats med flera stora priser, bland annat Storbritanniens mest ansedda Bookerpriset och BBC har gjort en hyllad dramaserien av de två böckerna.
Del 1 - Wolf Hall Trilogy
Wolf Hall
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
149 kr
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Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel. ‘Every bit as good as they said it was’ Observer‘Terrific’ Margaret Atwood‘As soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stop’ The Times In Wolf Hall, one of our very best writers brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and , finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s coutiers. ‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’ Daily Mail‘Terrifying. It is a world of marvels. But it is also a world of horrors, where screams are commonplace. A feast’ Daily Telegraph
Del 2 - Wolf Hall Trilogy
Bring Up the Bodies
Häftad, Engelska, 2019
141 kr
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Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize The second book in Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chief minister. With Henry captivated by plain Jane Seymour and rumours of Anne Boleyn's faithlessness whispered by all, Cromwell knows what he must do to secure his position. But the bloody theatre of the queen's final days will leave no one unscathed. ‘A great novel of dark and dirty passions, public and private. A truly great story’ Financial Times‘In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIII’s right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read’ Sunday Telegraph
Häftad, Engelska, 2007
163 kr
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An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, yet also erratic and untrustworthy. As these young men, key figures of the French Revolution, taste the addictive delights of power, the darker side of the period’s political ideals is unleashed – and all must face the horror that follows.
Del 3 - Wolf Hall
Spegeln och ljuset
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
199 kr
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"Hilary Mantel har förnyat den historiska romanen på ett storartat vis." SVT Kulturnyheterna
"Läs, lär och njut!" Aftonbladet
"Ingen annan författare skriver med så många pixlar som hon." Dagens Nyheter
"Mästerligt, Mantel! Jesper Högströms översättning är exakt och generös jag frestas att använda ordet vacker" Sydsvenskan
Med mod, list och brutalitet har Thomas Cromwell klättrat från samhällets bottenskikt till en plats som Henrik VIII:s högra hand. Nu, 1536, har han administrerat avrättningen av kungens andra hustru, Anne Boleyn, något som väckte ont blod bland många av Englands mäktiga. Samtidigt hopar sig tvivlen. Hur länge kan framgången bestå för en man av folket som saknar en egen armé? Finns det en gräns för hur långt man kan gå i maktens namn? Spegeln och ljuset är en storartad avslutning på en romantrilogi som gjort succé världen över, och som ofta beskrivs som en av de främsta skildringar av makt och människor som skrivits i modern tid.
"Imponerande" Skånska Dagbladet
"Jag kommer att sakna Cromwell och det är tack vare ljuset och rymden i Mantels text och hennes förmåga att skriva fram en värld där dåtid, nutid och framtid rör sig sömlöst i och kring varandra." SR Kulturnytt
Del 2 - Wolf Hall
För in de döda
Pocket, Svenska, 2020
89 kr
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I För in de döda, den andra delen i den trilogi som inleddes med succén Wolf Hall, skildrar Hilary Mantel en av de mest mytomspunna och skrämmande episoderna i den engelska historien: Anne Boleyns undergång.
Hilary Mantel, som har en lång rad uppmärksammade romaner bakom sig sen debuten 1985, har tilldelats Englands mest prestigefyllda pris, Man Booker, för både Wolf Hall och För in de döda. Det är unikt i prisets historia.
Del 1 - Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall
Häftad, Svenska, 2021
196 kr
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Del 2 - Wolf Hall
För in de döda
Storpocket, Svenska, 2014
99 kr
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I För in de döda, den andra delen i den trilogi som inleddes med succén Wolf Hall, skildrar Hilary Mantel en av de mest mytomspunna och skrämmande episoderna i den engelska historien: Anne Boleyns undergång. Hilary Mantel, som har en lång rad uppmärksammade romaner bakom sig sen debuten 1985, har tilldelats Englands mest prestigefyllda pris, Man Booker, för både Wolf Hall och För in de döda. Det är unikt i prisets historia. "Aldrig har jag läst något så förunderligt hänförande som Hilary Mantels Man Booker-prisbelönta romaner om kung Henrik VIII:s sekreterare Thomas Cromwell. Spelet bakom drottning Anne Boleyns uppgång och fall låter som en The Tudors-såpa men är ett sant mästerverk. Mantels eld, som får 1500-talet att flamma så intensivt innerligt, får alla andra romaner att falna till aska." Aftonbladet BBC har gjort en hyllad dramaserie av Wolf Hall och För in de döda.
Del 2 - Revolution
Jämlikhet
Pocket, Svenska, 2017
89 kr
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Jämlikhet, del 2 av Hilary Mantels stora revolutionsroman, börjar på revolutionens andra dag, 15 juli 1789. Bastiljen är stormad Danton, Robespierre och Demoulins träder fram på allvar. Tre år av maktkamp, tre år av agitation, tre år av uppladdning inför den stora terrorn. Frankrike skakar och en ny ordning bryter fram i Europa. Mantel skildrar revolutionen och revolutionärerna i skoningslös närbild.
Pocket, Svenska, 2016
89 kr
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Hilary Mantels självbiografi är en gripande berättelse om en kvinna som riskerar att formas av sitt öde men i stället tar det i egna händer och erövrar sitt liv. Samtidigt ger hon läsaren en unik inblick i hur en författare blir till. "När jag hade läst ut den här boken började jag om från början igen. Jag ville inte tänka att jag skulle ha missat något av hennes fullständigt briljanta formuleringar. Jag läser nästan aldrig om böcker... Det är sällan en bok har berört mig så starkt." Ingalill Mosander, Go kväll "Suget finns där från första stund, som en osynlig hand som tar tag i en och drar en inåt, neråt så att man strax simmar bland bokstäver och semikolon och aldrig någonsin vill röra sig mot ytan igen." SR, Kulturnytt "Den som är bekant med Mantels klipska elegans blir inte förvånad över att hon gör något alldeles speciellt även av denna ganska tunna minnesbok Borås Tidning "... hon låter mig på ett helt igenom trovärdigt och uppslukande vis ta del av en annan människas verklighet." Sydsvenskan "Man behöver inte vara ett Cromwell-fan för att ryckas med. Det här är en memoarbok som griper tag oavsett om man på förhand intresserar sig för dess huvudperson eller ej. Hilary Mantel vet som bekant hur man berättar en historia och får gestaltningen av sitt liv att framstå som ärlig och oputsad. Det känns snabbt oviktigt om det är sant eller ej. Det är fin läsning. Det räcker..."SvD "... en påtaglig storhet är hennes förmåga att frammana rapporter från ögonblicket" DN Hilary Mantel är en av Englands främsta författare. Hon belånades för både Wolf Hall och För in de döda med den engelskspråkiga världens främsta pris, Man Booker Prize, en unik händelse i prisets historia. Romanerna om Henrik VIII och Thomas Cromwell har dramatiserats av både Royal Shakespeare Company och BBC.
Häftad, Engelska, 1999
135 kr
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From the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, comes the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon John Hunter. Charles O’Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England?The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies’ corpses by the inch. Where is a man as unique as The Giant to hide his bones when he is yet alive?The Giant, O’ Brien is an unforgettable novel; lyrical, shocking and spliced with black comedy.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
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A comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past, who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists…Shortlisted for the Orange Prize, Hilary Mantel’s supremely suspenseful novel is a masterpiece of dark humour and even darker secrets.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
148 kr
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Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the Women's Prize for FictionShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award ‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'Daily Mail ‘Our most brilliant English writer’Guardian In this brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s courtiers, determined to bring England into a modern age.Heralded as the greatest English novels of this century, the Wolf Hall trilogy has won two Booker Prizes and been adapted into hugely successful stage plays. The first two books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, were transformed into a BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning BBC television series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. The cast will return in the long-awaited concluding series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light.
Häftad, Engelska, 2024
148 kr
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Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker PrizeWinner of the Costa Book of the YearShortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction ‘Simply exceptional…I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it’Daily Mail ‘A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror’Independent on Sunday Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chief minister. With Henry captivated by plain Jane Seymour and rumours of Anne Boleyn’s faithlessness whispered by all, Cromwell knows what he must do to secure his position. But the bloody theatre of the queen’s final days will leave no one unscathed …Heralded as the greatest English novels of this century, the Wolf Hall trilogy has won two Booker Prizes and been adapted into hugely successful stage plays. The first two books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, were transformed into a BAFTA- and Golden Globe-winning BBC television series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis. The cast now returns in the long-awaited concluding series, Wolf Hall: The Mirror & the Light.
Del 1 - Revolution
Frihet
Pocket, Svenska, 2017
89 kr
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Jag valde att skriva om Franska revolutionen, eftersom jag tyckte att det var det mest överraskande och intressanta som hänt i hela världshistorien. Hilary Mantel var bara 22 år när hon tog sig an detta storslagna ämne för sin stora roman Frihet, Jämlikhet och Broderskap, vars första del nu kommer ut på svenska. Hon skrev den i en tid när vänsterrörelsen fyllde gatorna i hela Europa, men hon valde sitt alldeles egna perspektiv: vilka var de, egentligen, de här franska revolutionärerna. Hemma hos sig? Med sina fruar och barn? Hilary Mantel har sedan dess vunnit världsberömmelse med sina romaner om Thomas Cromwell och Henrik VIII. Sin skarpa blick för historien hade hon redan från början, det visar denna mäktiga romansvit.
Häftad, Engelska, 2003
135 kr
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A companion piece to the captivating memoir Giving Up the Ghost by the Man Booker-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. This sharp, funny collection of stories drawn from life begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out.In 'King Billy is a Gentleman', the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. 'Curved Is the Line of Beauty' is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In 'Third Floor Rising', she watches, dazzled, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity.With a deceptively light touch, Mantel locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
260 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2000
269 kr
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Häftad, Engelska, 2004
140 kr
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‘Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood … A masterpiece’ RACHEL CUSK‘Giving up the Ghost’ is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography.Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'Smile', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
135 kr
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Following ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London.It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel’s world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
131 kr
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From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light , this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors. Fetherhoughton is a drab, dreary town somewhere in a magical, half-real 1950s north England, a preserve of ignorance and superstition protected against the advance of reason by its impenetrable moor-fogs. Father Angwin, the town’s cynical priest, has lost his faith, and wants nothing more than to be left alone. Sister Philomena strains against the monotony of convent life and the pettiness of her fellow nuns. The rest of the town goes about their lives in a haze, a never-ending procession of grim, grey days stretching ahead of them.Yet all of that is about to change. A strange visitor appears one stormy night, bringing with him the hint, the taste of something entirely new, something unknown. But who is Fludd? An angel come to shake the Fetherhoughtonians from their stupor, to reawaken Father Angwin’s faith, to show Philomena the nature of love? Or is he the devil himself, a shadowy wanderer of the darkest places in the human heart?Full of dry wit, compassionate characterisations and cutting insight, Fludd is a brilliant gem of a book, and one of Hilary Mantel’s most original works.
Häftad, Engelska, 2005
135 kr
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From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts and buried secrets.Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. The constant flood of ‘good souls and sad cases’, children plucked from the squalor of the East London streets for a breath of fresh countryside air, hides the growing crises in their own family, the disillusionment of their children, the fissures in their marriage.Memories of their time as missionaries in South Africa and Botswana, of the terrible African tragedies that have shaped the rest of their lives, refuse to be put to rest and threaten to destroy the fragile peace they have built for themselves and their children.This is a breathtakingly intelligent novel that asks the most difficult questions. Is there anything one can never forgive? Is tragedy ever deserved? Can you ever escape your own past? A literary family saga written with the skill and subtlety of a true master, this is Hilary Mantel at her best.
Häftad, Engelska, 2004
152 kr
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From the two-time Man Booker Prize winner author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, a prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, the expatriates are hard-drinking money-grubbers, and her Muslim neighbours are secretive, watchful. The streets are not a woman's territory; confined in her flat, she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve. She hears whispers, sounds of distress from the 'empty' flat above her head. She has only rumours, no facts to hang on to, and no one with whom to share her creeping unease. As her days empty of certainty and purpose, her life becomes a blank – waiting to be filled by violence and disaster.
Häftad, Engelska, 2030
97 kr
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Ljudbok
Engelska, 2009213 kr
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Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award`Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good'' Daily Mail‘Our most brilliant English writer’GuardianEngland, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey''s clerk, and later his successor.Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages.From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.
Del 1 - Wolf Hall Trilogy
Wolf Hall
Winner of the Man Booker Prize
E-bok
Engelska, 200986 kr
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The greatest literary sensation of recent times – and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky.In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s courtiers.Both winners of the Man Booker Prize and already hugely successful stage plays, WOLF HALL and its sequel BRING UP THE BODIES have now been transformed into a BBC television series starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, bringing history to life for a whole new audience.
E-bok
Engelska, 200997 kr
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From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, yet also erratic and untrustworthy. As these young men, key figures of the French Revolution, taste the addictive delights of power, the darker side of the period’s political ideals is unleashed – and all must face the horror that follows.
E-bok
Engelska, 201075 kr
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From the author of the Man Booker prize-winners `Wolf Hall’ and `Bring Up the Bodies’ comes a story of suburban mayhem and merciless, hilarious revenge.Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, the Axon family baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers.Isabel has other problems too: a randy, untrustworthy father and a slackly romantic lover, Colin Sidney, history teacher to unresponsive yobs and father of a parcel of horrible children. With all this to worry about, how can Isabel begin to understand what is going on in the Axon household?
E-bok
Engelska, 2010129 kr
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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of `Wolf Hall’ and `Bring Up the Bodies’, a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved `Every Day is Mother’s Day’.Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic.It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled, truths to be faced and rather a lot of vengeance to be wreaked.