Short answers, pulled from the story.
Hilary Mantel published Bring Up the Bodies in May 2012 through HarperCollins in the United Kingdom. The book appeared alongside Henry Holt and Co. in the United States during that same month.
Bring Up the Bodies won the Man Booker Prize in 2012 for outstanding fiction. The novel also received the Costa Book Award for Novel and the Costa Book Award for Book of the Year in the same year.
Mark Rylance starred as Thomas Cromwell in the six-part BBC television series adapted from the books. Damian Lewis played King Henry VIII while Jonathan Pryce appeared as Cardinal Wolsey in the production.
The play premiered at the Swan Theatre in Stratford-upon-Avon during its winter season in January 2014. It transferred later that year to the Aldwych Theatre in London for further performances.
Hilary Mantel chose to write the story using a close third-person perspective throughout the text. This narrative choice immerses readers deeply into Thomas Cromwell's internal psychological landscape without omniscient narration.