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A short guide to the Wolf Hall author’s remarkably varied back catalogue.
Jodie Turner-Smith as Anne Boleyn.
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Historically inaccurate portrayals of Anne Boleyn aren’t new, and artistic license is vital to telling her story.
Thomas Cromwell by Hans Holbein.
The Frick Collection
Mantel’s prize-winning novels put imaginary flesh on the skeletal historical record and gives us the complete picture of the Tudor courtier.