I love anything to do with King Henrys court, so when this book won the Booker Prize I needed to read it!! After the first chapter I thought the book would pick up pace. OH how wrong I was!! The truth is, if you suffer from terrible insomnia then this book will soon have you pushing out the ZZZZZZZZ's!

I didnt finish the book, it was too tedious and didnt hold my attention. The reviewer who said it was a 'hippo sized yawn' was spot on in my opinion, but this is only my opinion, lots of others have clearly enjoyed it.

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Rating: - For Insomnia Sufferers Only!
I love anything to do with King Henrys court, so when this book won the Booker Prize I needed to read it!! After the first chapter I thought the book would pick up pace. OH how wrong I was!! The truth is, if you suffer from terrible insomnia then this book will soon have you pushing out the ZZZZZZZZ's!

I didnt finish the book, it was too tedious and didnt hold my attention. The reviewer who said it was a 'hippo sized yawn' was spot on in my opinion, but this is only my opinion, lots of others have clearly enjoyed it.

Rating: - Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall provides a fascinating window into Tudor class prejudices and power politics. The popular image of Cromwell is dispelled, he is no longer a ruthless sixteenth century Alister Campbell carrying out every whim of Henry VIII, but a man of secret humanity and at the forefront of radical Protestant thinking.

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Rating: - Cromwell Henry's Fixer
This is an astonishing book. Mantel creates the world of the 1530s political movers and shakers so believably that the wranglings and manouvering around Henry's court seem as if they are happening now. I've always thought Cromwell to have been a selfseeking villain; not here where he's presented with a plausible humanity and a commendable loyalty to Wolsley whose style he adopted and continued. The surprise was Moor who is presented as a bigoted catholic propagandist who pursued heretics with unrelenting vigour and cruelty: deliberate iconoclasm? And Anne; was she really such a waspish scarer of men? The billing for this book does not exaggerate: read it and be amazed(a whos who in Tudor England will be useful if you're not too familiar with the characters).
Clive Cotton

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Rating: - Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall Author Hilary Mantel.

A good read, thoroughly well researched. Excellent throughout. I can't wait to read some of her other novels now.

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Rating: - it's good but.........
It took me a while to get used to the author's scurrying backwards and forwards in time. I didn't expect a straight cradle to grave account but I found the switches to and fro irritating after a while. And I'd have liked a bit more action and a lot less chat to put it plainly. Cromwell didn't come alive for me in this book. Maybe my taste isn't refined enough. Ah well.

john mcmanus

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