After a more than a decade of reading, waiting, reading, waiting, reading and then sitting back with a book on my chest and no small sense of grief in my heart, I found I had completed The Mirror and ...

Thomas Cromwell hadn’t exactly fallen off the historical radar in the five centuries since he lost his head to Henry VIII, but he has enjoyed even wider recent fame thanks to Hilary Mantel’s novels ...

It has taken Hilary Mantel 11 years, three volumes and more than 1,700 pages to dispatch, at last, the man William Cobbett called the “bloody ruffian, THOMAS CROMWELL.” Starting with “Wolf Hall” (2009 ...