The paperback edition of this year's Man Booker Prize winner, this is the second in the series following the life of Thomas Cromwell. The first, }Wolf Hall{, also won the Booker Prize and sold more than 500,000 copies in the UK alone. Mantel explores one of the most frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. She is the first English writer and the first woman to win the Booker Prize twice. '... literary invention does not fail her: she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever' Margaret Atwood, }Guardian{