Historical Fiction

The Mirror & the Light

by Hilary Mantel · Thomas Cromwell series

Cromwell's final years, from the wreckage of Henry's fourth marriage to the scaffold he cannot talk his way past. Mantel completes her trilogy with a vast, intricate portrait of a self-made man undone by the machinery he built. Eight hundred pages of Tudor England refracted through one of fiction's most fully realized minds.

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