Bring Up the Bodies
The greatest literary sensation of recent times – and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky.Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012.Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning WOLF HALL, we return to the court of Henry VIII.The volatile Anne Boleyn is now Queen, her career seemingly entwined with that of Cromwell. The split from the Catholic Church has left England dangerously isolated, and Anne has failed to give the king an heir. And when the King begins to fall in love with self-effacing Jane Seymour, the ever-pragmatic Cromwell must negotiate within an increasingly perilous court to satisfy Henry, defend the nation and, above all, to secure his own rise in the world. Neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days.An astounding literary accomplishment, BRING UP THE BODIES is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists.
Читать Bring Up the Bodies онлайн беплатно
HILARY MANTEL
BRING UP
THE BODIES
First published in Great Britain in 2012 by Fourth Estate
An imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers 1 London Bridge Street London SE1 9GF www.4thestate.co.uk
Copyright © Tertius Enterprises 2012
Cover illustration by Andy Bridge
The right of Hilary Mantel to be identified as the author of this work has been asserted by her in accordance with the Copyright, Design and Patents Act 1988
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 nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, 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 e-books.
HarperCollinsPublishers has made every reasonable effort to ensure that any picture content and written content in this ebook has been included or removed in accordance with the contractual and technological constraints in operation at the time of publication.
HB ISBN: 9780007315093
Limited edition HB ISBN: 9780007485598
TPB ISBN: 9780007353583
Ebook Edition © APRIL 2012 ISBN: 9780007477357
Version: 2016-06-22
Once again to Mary Robertson: after my right harty commendacions, and with spede.
‘Am I not a man like other men? Am I not? Am I not?’
HENRY VIII to Eustache Chapuys, Imperial ambassador
Contents
Copyright
Dedication
Epigraph
Cast of Characters
Family Trees
PART ONE
Chapter I - Falcons. September 1535
Chapter II - Crows. Autumn 1535
Chapter III - Angels. Christmas 1535–New Year 1536
PART TWO
Chapter I - The Black Book. January–April 1536
Chapter II - Master of Phantoms. April–May 1536
Chapter III - Spoils. Summer 1536
Author’s Note
Acknowledgements
Also by Hilary Mantel
The Cromwell household
Thomas Cromwell, a blacksmith’s son: now Secretary to the king, Master of the Rolls, Chancellor of Cambridge University, and deputy to the king as head of the church in England.
Gregory Cromwell, his son.
Richard Cromwell, his nephew.
Rafe Sadler, his chief clerk, brought up by Cromwell as his son.
Helen, Rafe’s beautiful wife.
Thomas Avery, the household accountant.
Thurston, his master cook.
Christophe, a servant.
Dick Purser, keeper of the watchdogs.
Anthony, a jester.
The dead
Thomas Wolsey, cardinal, papal legate, Lord Chancellor: dismissed from office, arrested and died, 1530.
John Fisher, Bishop of Rochester: executed 1535.
Thomas More, Lord Chancellor after Wolsey: executed 1535.
Elizabeth, Anne and Grace Cromwell, Thomas Cromwell’s wife and daughters, died 1527–28; also Katherine Williams and Elizabeth Wellyfed, his sisters.
The king’s family
Henry VIII.
Anne Boleyn, his second wife.
Elizabeth, Anne’s infant daughter, heir to the throne.
Henry Fitzroy, Duke of Richmond, the king’s illegitimate son.
The king’s other family
Katherine of Aragon, Henry’s first wife, divorced and under house arrest at Kimbolton.
Mary, Henry’s daughter by Katherine and the alternative heir to the throne: also under house arrest.
Maria de Salinas, a former lady-in-waiting to Katherine of Aragon.
Sir Edmund Bedingfield, Katherine’s keeper.
Grace, his wife.
The Howard and Boleyn families
Thomas Howard, Duke of Norfolk, uncle to the queen: ferocious senior peer and an enemy of Cromwell.
Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, his young son.
Thomas Boleyn, Earl of Wiltshire, the queen’s father: ‘Monseigneur’.
George Boleyn, Lord Rochford, the queen’s brother.
Jane, Lady Rochford, George’s wife.
Mary Shelton, the queen’s cousin.
And offstage: Mary Boleyn, the queen’s sister, now married and living in the country, but formerly the king’s mistress.
The Seymour family of Wolf Hall
Old Sir John, notorious for having had an affair with his daughter-in-law.
Lady Margery, his wife.
Edward Seymour, his eldest son.
Thomas Seymour, a younger son.
Jane Seymour, his daughter, lady-in-waiting to both Henry’s queens.
Bess Seymour, her sister, married to Sir Anthony Oughtred, Governor of Jersey: then widowed.
The courtiers
Charles Brandon, Duke of Suffolk: widower of Henry VIII’s sister Mary: a peer of limited intellect.
Thomas Wyatt, a gentleman of unlimited intellect: Cromwell’s friend: widely suspected of being a lover of Anne Boleyn.
Harry Percy, Earl of Northumberland: a sick and indebted young nobleman, once betrothed to Anne Boleyn.
Francis Bryan, ‘the Vicar of Hell’, related to both the Boleyns and the Seymours.
Nicholas Carew, Master of the Horse: an enemy of the Boleyns.
William Fitzwilliam, Master Treasurer, also an enemy of the Boleyns.
Henry Norris, known as ‘Gentle Norris’, chief of the king’s privy chamber.
