[contextly_auto_sidebar id="yMNsxjvC1NZg7QolcUkqidemBUq7Nn8a"] The secret of the success of Hilary Mantel’s novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies is seeing the events of the reign of Henry VIII through the eyes of an unlikely character in the grand sweep of history, Thomas Cromwell. A London lawyer with a reputation for toughness and bullying, the son of a butcher and therefore not a … [Read more...]