WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE

WINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTION

A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER

England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, astute in reading people, and implacable in his ambition. But Henry is volatile: one day tender, one day murderous. Cromwell helps him break the opposition, but what will be the price of his triumph? In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." ( The Boston Globe ).

希拉裏·曼特爾齣生在英國格羅索普市，曾於倫敦經濟學院和謝菲爾德大學攻讀法律。曾擔任《觀察傢》首席電影評論傢。

1992年：《更安全的地方》重現瞭法國大革命的恢宏場麵。獲得瞭周日快報年度小說奬。

1994年：《變溫》講述瞭一對傳教士夫婦的故事，他們的生活因為丟失一個孩子而變得支離破碎。

1995年：《愛的考驗》獲霍桑登奬。

2005年：《黑暗深處》獲2006年英聯邦作傢奬入圍小說，獲得2006年橘子奬提名。同年，曼特爾受封大英帝國司令勛章（CBE）。

2009年：《狼廳》獲布剋奬、全美書評人協會奬