Wolf Hall [sound recording] : a novel / Hilary Mantel.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780792771159
- ISBN: 079277115X
- Physical Description: 18 sound discs (23 hr.) : digital ; 4 3/4 in.
- Edition: Unabridged.
- Publisher: North Kingstown, R.I. : BBC Audiobooks America, [2010], p2009.
Content descriptions
General Note: | Compact disc. Title from container. "Sound Library"--Container. Release date supplied by publisher. Recording originally produced by W.F. Howes Ltd., p2009. In container (17 cm.) "Digitally Mastered"--Container. |
Participant or Performer Note: | Narrated by Simon Slater. |
Summary, etc.: | With no male heir, the infamous Henry VIII wants to annul his 20-year marriage to allow himself to marry Anne Boleyn. When Cardinal Wolsey fails to convince the Catholic Church to follow his king's ideas, he falls out of favor. In steps Thomas Cromwell--a blacksmith's son who has seen his share of hardship. When he is able to give the king his heart's desire, he finds himself in a powerful position. But his new role is a dangerous one with the volatile king. |
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Subject: | Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 > Fiction. Great Britain > History > Henry VIII, 1509-1547 > Fiction. |
Genre: | Historical fiction. Audiobooks. |
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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New Milford Public Library | CD BOOK F MANTE (Text) | 34021154073601 | Adult Fiction CD | Available | - |
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Author Notes
Wolf Hall
Hilary Mantel was born in Glossop, Derbyshire, England on July 6, 1952. She studied law at the London School of Economics and Sheffield University. She worked as a social worker in Botswana for five years, followed by four years in Saudi Arabia. She returned to Britain in the mid-1980s. In 1987 she was awarded the Shiva Naipaul Memorial Prize for an article about Jeddah. She worked as a film critic for The Spectator from 1987 to 1991. She has written numerous books including Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, A Place of Greater Safety, A Change of Climate, The Giant, O'Brien, Giving up the Ghost: A Memoir, and Beyond Black. She made The New York Times Best Seller List with her title The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. She has won several awards for her work including the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, the Cheltenham Prize and the Southern Arts Literature Prize for Fludd; the 1996 Hawthornden Prize for An Experiment in Love, the 2009 Man Booker Prize for Wolf Hall, and the 2012 Man Booker Prize for Bring up the Bodies. Book three of the Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was named the best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, Time, The Guardian, and others. Hilary Mantel died on September 22, 2022 from complications of a stroke. She was 70. (Bowker Author Biography)