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Fourth Estate, $32.99 pb, 411 pp, 9780007353583
Fiction
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
by Peter Rose •
Royals, it seems, have their tenacious uses, often fictive. Contemporaries such as Alan Bennett and Edward St Aubyn have deployed them. One hundred years ago, Ford Madox Ford wrote his singular trilogy (1906–08) about Katharine Howard, The Fifth Queen of Henry VIII. Now the esteemed novelist and memoirist Hilary Mantel returns to the Tudor world, again with revisionist intent.
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Bring Up the Bodies
by Hilary Mantel
Fourth Estate, $32.99 pb, 411 pp, 9780007353583
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