Wolf Hall

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The Living Force
Another great period drama/historical fiction:

Wiki said:
Wolf Hall is a British television serial first broadcast on BBC Two in January 2015. The six-part series is an adaptation of two of Hilary Mantel's novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, a fictionalised biography documenting the rapid rise to power of Thomas Cromwell in the court of Henry VIII through to the death of Sir Thomas More, followed by Cromwell's success in freeing the king of his marriage to Anne Boleyn. Wolf Hall was first broadcast in April 2015 in the United States on PBS and in Australia on BBC First.

The series was a critical success and received eight nominations at the 67th Primetime Emmy Awards and three nominations at the 73rd Golden Globe Awards, winning for Best Miniseries or Television Film.

Slow-paced, beautifully shot, with solid acting, great settings and psychologically realistic characters, this miniseries is a good surprise and the antithesis of The Tudors TV series, which, while enjoyable, was historically inaccurate. Recommended!

 
Hilary Mantel has passed away.

Award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel died suddenly last Thursday aged 70. Mantel was in the middle of finishing a new historical novel, had just launched a photographic project and was in the process of upping sticks from the UK and moving to Ireland. Her death has taken many by surprise.

Mantel was born in 1952 in Glossop, Derbyshire. She studied law at the London School of Economics and later at the University of Sheffield, before working in the social-work department of a hospital and then as a sales assistant in a department store. During the 1970s and early 1980s, she lived in Botswana and then Saudi Arabia with her geologist husband, Gerald McEwen.
It was not until 1985 that her writing career took off, with the publication of her first novel, Every Day is Mother’s Day. Over the course of the following four decades, she wrote 12 novels, two short-story collections and a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost, which gave readers a fascinating insight into Mantel’s writing process for historical fiction.



It was her Thomas Cromwell trilogy – Wolf Hall (2009), Bring Up the Bodies (2012) and The Mirror and the Light (2020) – that comprised her most popular and critically acclaimed work. She won the Booker Prize with Wolf Hall in 2009, and then won it again in 2012 with Bring Up the Bodies – making her the first Briton and woman to win the prize twice. On the day The Mirror and the Light was published two years ago, fans had queued outside bookstores overnight.

 
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