Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel (2009), 615 pages

Wolf Hall, by Hilary Mantel, is fiction based on the life of a real person,Thomas Cromwell. Picked by a number of pundits as one of the best books of 2009, it doesn’t disappoint. It does well what some of the best books do well: capture a world and populate it with believable characters whose actions and motives ring true.

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