Picture Perfect month presents us with the opportunity to showcase the cover of one of the best books published in many of our lifetimes. And it's #tbt, which means that we can root around in the archives all the way back to...2009.
Wolf Hall was the first of Hilary Mantel's mould-breaking historical novels about Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's great minister. Mantel made Man Booker prize history by becoming the first woman and the first British writer to win the literary award twice, winning for both Wolf Hall and its sequel, Bring Up The Bodies (2012).
Receiving the second price, Mantel joked: 'You wait 20 years for a Booker prize and then two come along at once'.
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