The paperback edition of this year's Man Booker Prize winner, this is the second in the series following the life of Thomas Cromwell. The first, "Wolf Hall", also won the Booker Prize and sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK alone. Mantel explores one of the most frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. She is the first English writer and the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice. '... literary invention does not fail her: she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever' Margaret Atwood, "Guardian"

Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen 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.