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Bring Up the Bodies won the 2012 Man Booker Prize. It also won the 2012 Costa Novel Award and the 2012 Costa Book of the Year, making Hilary Mantel the first author to win the Booker Prize twice for consecutive novels in the same trilogy.
Bring Up the Bodies was written by British author Hilary Mantel. It is the second novel in a trilogy about Thomas Cromwell, following Wolf Hall (2009) and preceding The Mirror and the Light (2020).
Bring Up the Bodies was published in May 2012. HarperCollins released it in the United Kingdom and Henry Holt and Co. published it in the United States.
Bring Up the Bodies follows Thomas Cromwell as he engineers the downfall of Queen Anne Boleyn at the command of King Henry VIII. The novel traces the gathering of evidence, the trials of Anne and members of her circle, and Cromwell's awareness that the case he builds may rest on uncertain grounds.
The Royal Shakespeare Company staged a two-part theatrical adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in January 2014, with a script by Mantel and Mike Poulton. A six-part BBC television series starred Mark Rylance, Damian Lewis, and Jonathan Pryce, airing in the UK in January 2015 and in the United States in April 2015.
The New York Times ranked Bring Up the Bodies at number 95 on its list of the 100 best books of the 21st century.