Mantel's triumphant return to Tudor times

Bring Up The Bodies

**By Hilary Mantel**

**Fourth Estate, €16**

**Reviewed by Joanne Hayden**

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Among Hilary Mantel's manifold talents is her knack of presenting history and those who inhabit it as part of a continuum. Her historical characters belong to both the past and the present, their behaviour and belief systems reminiscent of today, despite being rooted in a bygone era.

In Wolf Hall, her 2009 Booker Prize winner, Mantel charted the ...