Our Fiction Buyer Chris White chooses Bring Up the Bodies, by Hilary Mantel as his Man Booker Prize winner. So many historical novels take the Tudor Age as their setting that it is sometimes hard to separate your Wyatts from your Churchyards. And yet with her previous novel, Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel easily managed to distinguish herself from her peers, displaying a vivid and immediate voice, an absorbingly comprehensive feel for the period and, above all, a central character, Thomas Cromwell, so chock full of contradictions that he makes Raskolnikov look one dimensional Read more →