Used. Paperback. Hilary Mantel’s Booker-winning masterpiece tracks the meteoric, mandible-gritting rise of Thomas Cromwell as he navigates the cutthroat court of Henry VIII with the stealth of a shrewd statesman. Instead of painting the Tudor era in broad, bloody strokes, Mantel delivers a sharply observed psychological chess match where every muttered pleasantry carries fatal weight. You’ll find yourself utterly bewitched by Cromwell's pragmatic brilliance long before you reach the edge of this brilliant first act.