Hilary Mantel - Hilary Mantel Collection

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Source ISBNs: 9780007230181 / 9780007315093 / 9780007250554 / 9780007268375 / 9781857028867 / 9780007172900

Ebook Edition © November 2013 ISBN: 9780007557707

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Table of Contents

Cover

Title Page THE HILARY MANTEL COLLECTION Hilary Mantel

Copyright Copyright Copyright Wolf Hall Bring Up The Bodies A Place of Greater Safety The Giant, O’Brien Beyond Black A Change of Climate About the Author By the Same Author About the Publisher Fourth Estate An imprint of HarperCollins Publishers 1 London Bridge Street, London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk This eBook collection first published in Great Britain by Fourth Estate in 2013 Copyright © Hilary Mantel 2013 Main cover: Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies illustrations © Andy Bridges; A Place of Greater Safety illustration © De Agostini/Getty Images; Other illustrations (except Beyond Black ) © Shutterstock Hilary Mantel asserts the moral right to be identified as the author of this work. A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins. Source ISBNs: 9780007230181 / 9780007315093 / 9780007250554 / 9780007268375 / 9781857028867 / 9780007172900 Ebook Edition © November 2013 ISBN: 9780007557707 Version: 2019-06-10

Wolf Hall HILARY MANTEL WOLF HALL

Bring Up The Bodies

A Place of Greater Safety

The Giant, O’Brien

Beyond Black

A Change of Climate

About the Author

By the Same Author

About the Publisher

HILARY MANTEL

WOLF HALL

To my singular friend Mary Robertson this be given.

Cover

Title Page

Dedication

Cast of Characters

Family Trees

Epigraph

Part One

Chapter I - Across the Narrow Sea. 1500

Chapter II - Paternity. 1527

Chapter III - At Austin Friars. 1527

Part Two

Chapter I - Visitation. 1529

Chapter II - An Occult History of Britain. 1521–1529

Chapter III - Make or Mar. All Hallows 1529

Part Three

Chapter I - Three-Card Trick. Winter 1529–Spring 1530

Chapter II - Entirely Beloved Cromwell. Spring–December 1530

Chapter III - The Dead Complain of Their Burial. Christmastide 1530

Part Four

Chapter I - Arrange Your Face. 1531

Chapter II - ‘Alas, What Shall I Do For Love?’ Spring 1532

Chapter III - Early Mass. November 1532

Part Five

Chapter I - Anna Regina. 1533

Chapter II - Devil's Spit. Autumn and winter 1533

Chapter III - A Painter's Eye. 1534

Part Six

Chapter I - Supremacy. 1534

Chapter II - The Map of Christendom. 1534–1535

Chapter III - To Wolf Hall. July 1535

Author's Note

Acknowledgements

Copyright

In Putney, 1500

Walter Cromwell, a blacksmith and brewer.

Thomas, his son.

Bet, his daughter.

Kat, his daughter.

Morgan Williams, Kat's husband.

At Austin Friars, from 1527

Thomas Cromwell, a lawyer.

Liz Wykys, his wife.

Gregory, their son.

Anne, their daughter.

Grace, their daughter.

Henry Wykys, Liz's father, a wool trader.

Mercy, his wife.

Johane Williamson, Liz's sister.

John Williamson, her husband.

Johane (Jo), their daughter.

Alice Wellyfed, Cromwell's niece, daughter of Bet Cromwell.

Richard Williams, later called Cromwell, son of Kat and Morgan.

Rafe Sadler, Cromwell's chief clerk, brought up at Austin Friars.

Thomas Avery, the household accountant.

Helen Barre, a poor woman taken in by the household.

Thurston, the cook.

Christophe, a servant.

Dick Purser, keeper of the guard dogs.

At Westminster

Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: Thomas Cromwell's patron.

George Cavendish, Wolsey's gentleman usher and later biographer.

Stephen Gardiner, Master of Trinity Hall, the cardinal's secretary, later Master Secretary to Henry VIII: Cromwell's most devoted enemy.

Thomas Wriothesley, Clerk of the Signet, diplomat, protégé of both Cromwell and Gardiner.

Richard Riche, lawyer, later Solicitor General.

Thomas Audley, lawyer, Speaker of the House of Commons, Lord Chancellor after Thomas More's resignation.

At Chelsea

Thomas More, lawyer and scholar, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey's fall. Alice, his wife.

Sir John More, his aged father.

Margaret Roper, his eldest daughter, married to Will Roper.

Anne Cresacre, his daughter-in-law.

Henry Pattinson, a servant.

In the city

Humphrey Monmouth, merchant, imprisoned for sheltering William Tyndale, translator of the Bible into English.

John Petyt, merchant, imprisoned on suspicion of heresy.

Lucy, his wife.

John Parnell, merchant, embroiled in long-running legal dispute with Thomas More.