Pressestimmen
'The greatest modern English prose writer working today' Sir Peter Stothard, Chairman of the Man Booker Prize '"Bring Up the Bodies" is simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' Sandra Parsons, Daily Mail 'A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror' Philip Hensher, Independent on Sunday 'In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIII's right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read. A staggering achievement' Sarah Crompton, Sunday Telegraph 'Great novel - worthy companion to Wolf Hall ... Hurry up with the third novel Hilary' Daily Express
Pressestimmen
'Picks up the body parts where "Wolf Hall" left off ... literary invention does not fail her: she's as deft and verbally adroit as ever, Margaret Atwood, Guardian
'Bring Up The Bodies succeeds brilliantly in every particle of this: it,s an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives, The Spectator
'Historical novel? Of course, and probably the best to be published since "Wolf Hall"' Andrew Motion, The Times
'Mantel,s genius in the retelling of this oft-told tale is her knack of reaching inside people,s heads into the nooks and crannies of their thoughts, seeing what many others don,t ... I hesitate to use the term 'genius, but ..., Kathy Stevenson, Daily Mail
'Bring Up The Bodies should net its author another Booker Prize, Amanda Craig, New Statesman
'Where much historical fiction gets entangled in the simulation of historical authenticity, Mantel bypasses those knots of concoction, and proceeds as if authenticity were magic rather than a science. She knows that what gives fiction its vitality is not the accurate detail but the animate one, and that novelists are creators, not coroners, of the human case ... In short, this novelist has the maddeningly unteachable gift of being interesting., James Wood, The New Yorker
'...a magnificent encore from first page to last, Mail on Sunday
'An outstandingly good read ... Fans of 'Wolf Hall, will relish this book, but "Bring Up the Bodies" also stands alone, The Economist
'This is a great novel of dark and dirty passions, public and private. It is also an exploration of what still shocks us... A truly great story, it rolls on., James Naughtie, FT
'There is no sense in which Bring Up the Bodies is a simple follow-up or continuation of Wolf Hall. More then most, Mantel is a committed revolutionary novelist, TLS
'Bring Up The Bodies succeeds brilliantly in every particle of this: it,s an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives, The Spectator
'Historical novel? Of course, and probably the best to be published since "Wolf Hall"' Andrew Motion, The Times
'Mantel,s genius in the retelling of this oft-told tale is her knack of reaching inside people,s heads into the nooks and crannies of their thoughts, seeing what many others don,t ... I hesitate to use the term 'genius, but ..., Kathy Stevenson, Daily Mail
'Bring Up The Bodies should net its author another Booker Prize, Amanda Craig, New Statesman
'Where much historical fiction gets entangled in the simulation of historical authenticity, Mantel bypasses those knots of concoction, and proceeds as if authenticity were magic rather than a science. She knows that what gives fiction its vitality is not the accurate detail but the animate one, and that novelists are creators, not coroners, of the human case ... In short, this novelist has the maddeningly unteachable gift of being interesting., James Wood, The New Yorker
'...a magnificent encore from first page to last, Mail on Sunday
'An outstandingly good read ... Fans of 'Wolf Hall, will relish this book, but "Bring Up the Bodies" also stands alone, The Economist
'This is a great novel of dark and dirty passions, public and private. It is also an exploration of what still shocks us... A truly great story, it rolls on., James Naughtie, FT
'There is no sense in which Bring Up the Bodies is a simple follow-up or continuation of Wolf Hall. More then most, Mantel is a committed revolutionary novelist, TLS
