Wolf Hall

I'm not going to say much because I don't want to give away anything in this magnificent novel, which does for the Tudors what Gone With The Wind did for the South. I'll just note that the plot thickens on page 200, and that I shall be first in line when the sequel appears. I'm keeping this book to read over again for its marvellously constructed episodes and then again and again for Hillary Mantel's exquisite way with words. Wolf Hall won all the big prizes in England in 2009, and deservedly so.