Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Womens Prize for Fiction. 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 Boleyns faithlessness whispered by all, Cromwell knows what he must do to secure his position. But the bloody theatre of the queens 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 VIIIs right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read Sunday Telegraph