Have you seen this?
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/01/books ... updateema3
Sounds good, though I am a bit outtudored these days.
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Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel
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A good review - I would say it very accurately reflects the appeal of the novel. Cromwell is an intellectual, but not a book-trained intellectual like More whose abstract notions of right and wrong allow him to order people tortured and still get a reputation for saintliness. Cromwell has a practical turn of mind that foreshadows a more modern world, and it works very well for him - until it doesn't, but that part is being saved for the sequel.
I highly recommend Wolf Hall, perhaps especially for those who feel all Tudored-out. It has a refreshing complexity that is worlds away from the usual romantically exaggerated Tudor glitz, passion and beheading. And it's going to be our Book of the Month here, starting tomorrow!
I highly recommend Wolf Hall, perhaps especially for those who feel all Tudored-out. It has a refreshing complexity that is worlds away from the usual romantically exaggerated Tudor glitz, passion and beheading. And it's going to be our Book of the Month here, starting tomorrow!
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Starkey & Mantel
I don't know whether this has been mentioned elsewhere but here is a link to Youtube showing a dialogue between David Starkey and Hilary Mantel. I have found three parts. There may be more.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRQbyjvpYwU
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fRQbyjvpYwU
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Fascinating interview - thanks for the link, SGM.
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Happened to do a search for the title and found this new article from the Telegraph
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... rview.html
BTW, for those who don't know, there is a Book of the Month discussion of Wolf Hall here, as well as a review and subsequent comments.
http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... php?t=2564
http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... php?t=1622
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/book ... rview.html
BTW, for those who don't know, there is a Book of the Month discussion of Wolf Hall here, as well as a review and subsequent comments.
http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... php?t=2564
http://www.historicalfictiononline.com/ ... php?t=1622
Fascinating interview, Ash
I found this piece about the sequel's title interesting - I hadn't realised that it was a quote from Cromwell himself.
Yet for the moment her life is all about The Mirror and the Light, the sequel to Wolf Hall, which will depict the years of Cromwells greatest power, before his execution by Henry VIII. 'The title is a phrase that Cromwell used, and it just seems endlessly fertile, the distortions a mirror can throw up and yet the truth it tells. The way you can move the light towards the mirror I am not sure I am ever going to get to the end of that.
I found this piece about the sequel's title interesting - I hadn't realised that it was a quote from Cromwell himself.
Yet for the moment her life is all about The Mirror and the Light, the sequel to Wolf Hall, which will depict the years of Cromwells greatest power, before his execution by Henry VIII. 'The title is a phrase that Cromwell used, and it just seems endlessly fertile, the distortions a mirror can throw up and yet the truth it tells. The way you can move the light towards the mirror I am not sure I am ever going to get to the end of that.