Book · 2009 · Fiction
Wolf Hall
A Novel
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He’s a hero in Man for All Seasons. He’s basically a villain in Wolf Hall. We lose some of that complexity of a contradictory, complex human individual.
What they say about it
- Discussing the trilogy and adaptations“Wolf Hall trilogy”4
The best things said about it
As far as fiction writers go I'm so in love with Hilary Mantel who wrote the Wolf Hall trilogy about Henry VII and won the Booker Prize for the first two installments of it.
Elizabeth Gilbert The Tim Ferriss Show · Jul 2024 In 2009 there was a book published called Wolf Hall. What a book. I know, what a book.
Following that he took the first two books in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VII and miraculously adapted them into a six episode TV series.
It's sci-fi but it also feels like some version of Wolf Hall maybe with all these people whispering in each other's ears and plots upon plots.
Where and when it comes up
Most mentions, by podcast
6 people who brought it up
Why people recommend it
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel is a historical fiction novel that chronicles the rise of Thomas Cromwell in the court of King Henry VIII. Elizabeth Gilbert expressed her deep admiration for Mantel's trilogy on The Tim Ferriss Show, highlighting its Booker Prize-winning status. On Conversations with Tyler, Joanne Paul contrasted the book's portrayal of Thomas More with other works to examine the complexities of historical figures. Gilbert Cruz and Tina Jordan discussed the novel on The Book Review as a major turning point for the historical fiction genre, while Cruz also spoke with screenwriter Peter Straughan about adapting the first two installments into a television series. Straughan noted on the same podcast that the narrative did not easily translate into standard television shapes. Furthermore, Diarmaid MacCulloch discussed on How I Write how Mantel sent him advance digital copies of the final trilogy installment to verify historical accuracy, and Cruz referenced the book on The Book Review while discussing court life depictions with another guest.
Every mention
Elizabeth Gilbert and then as far as fiction writers go I'm so in love with Hillary mantel who wrote The Wolf Hall Trilogy ab… 1
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“and then as far as fiction writers go I'm so in love with Hillary mantel who wrote The Wolf Hall Trilogy about Henry VII and won the booker prize for the first two installments of it”
Gilbert Cruz and of course that immediately made me think about Wolf Hall uh a book that we were lucky enough to have yo… 4
Discussed
“in 2009 there was a book published called Wolf Hall. What a book. I know, what a book.”
Discussed
“following that he took the first two books in Hillary mantel's Wolf Hall Trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VII and miraculously adapted them into a six episode TV series”
Discussed
“and of course that immediately made me think about Wolf Hall uh a book that we were lucky enough to have you write a little thing about for our recent list of the best books of the 21st century”
Discussed
“it's sci-fi but it also feels like some version of Wolf Hall maybe with all these people whispering in each other's ears and plots upon plots”
Peter Straughan Wolf Hall didn't fall easily into um you know sort TV narrative shape 2
Discussed
“Wolf Hall didn't fall easily into um you know sort TV narrative shape”
Discussed
“there's three books by the way for wol fall there's the mirror and the light the third one which we've also adapted”
Diarmaid MacCulloch So, one of the things she did with the third part of her trilogy, the Wolf Hall trilogy, was to send me the… 1
Discussed
“So, one of the things she did with the third part of her trilogy, the Wolf Hall trilogy, was to send me the typescript or the yeah, a virtual equivalent of a typescript, the PDF, and say, Can you look at this and have a look at the the historicity of it?”
Jimana C. T. from Wolf Hall to the known world to the Underground Railroad to to penko to Lincoln and the BAU 1
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“from Wolf Hall to the known world to the Underground Railroad to to penko to Lincoln and the BAU”
Joanne Paul He’s a hero in Man for All Seasons. He’s basically a villain in Wolf Hall. We lose some of that complexity… 1
Discussed
“He’s a hero in Man for All Seasons. He’s basically a villain in Wolf Hall. We lose some of that complexity of a contradictory, complex human individual.”
Mentioned on the show without a named speaker1
Discussed
“Wolf Hall Parts one and two was adopted for the stage by Mike poulton and it's a production of the royal Shakespeare company”
Other mentions (5: passing, ad reads, own books)
Passing
“I did that with bring up the bodies the H did Hall the first I'm sorry Wolf Hall is what I mean”
Passing
“more than a decade since the first one Wolf Hall was released the trilogy has been really groundbreaking commercially and culturally”
Passing
“shortly after she wrote the opening sequences of Wolf Hall which depict crumel as a young man being beaten by his father”
Passing
“I of course the Thomas Cromwell books which I am waiting along with the rest of the world for the third installment of those to come out”
Passing
“the opening of Wolf Hall is one of my favorite openings for that reason”