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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012To celebrate the double Man Booker prize-winning Hilary Mantel's unparalleled achievement, 4th Estate presents a signed, limited, numbered first edition of `Bring Up the Bodies'.The book is housed in a black, cloth-covered slipcase and features the golden falcon emblem. The jacket design is based on the famous `B necklace' portrait of Anne Boleyn. Printed on superior-quality paper and including head and tail bands, a ribbon marker and foiled endpapers - only 1000 of these special editions will be released.`Bring Up the Bodies' continues what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning `Wolf Hall'; we return to the court of Henry VIII, to witness the irresistible rise of Thomas Cromwell. An astounding literary accomplishment, `Bring Up the Bodies' is the story of a most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. |