The first book in Hilary MantelÕs 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. ÔEvery bit as good as they said it wasÕ Observer ÔTerrificÕ Margaret Atwood ÔAs soon as I opened this book I was gripped. I read it almost non-stopÕ 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 VIIIÕs coutiers.