I heard about Wolf Hall for the first time from Simon Haisell’s slow reading book group on Substack. He has formed two slow reading book groups for 2024 - War and Peace and Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy (Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light). The notes on Substack and the responses to the notes have been pretty intriguing and I’ve felt compelled to join in many times. But the ‘slow reading’ is much faster than my reading of two page per day of the Great Books of the Western World. I’m also reading other books in parallel. So, hope to join sometime in the future or follow the reading schedule on my own.
Was surprised to see this in the NYT Top 100 Books of the 21st Century as #3. Happened to go to a second-hand bookstore nearby on the day I read the NYT article and found this displayed on a mantle at the start of one of the aisles. So now, I have a copy of my own.
Thomas Cromwell reminds me of watching The Tudors on Neftlix long back. Both of us enjoyed it. Henry Cavill’s Duke of Suffolk was my favorite character. Also remember Anne Boleyn played by Natalie Dormer who went on the play Margery Tyrell in GoT.