‘An exhilarating, if dark, collection … ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ is a small triumph: a lesson in artfully controlled savagery’ Sunday Times

From the reviews of Wolf Hall:

‘A stunning book … I can’t think of anything since Middlemarch which so convincingly builds a world’ Diana Athill

‘A magnificent achievement’ Sarah Dunant

From the reviews of Bring Up the Bodies:

‘She has recast the most essential period of our modern English history … the greatest modern English prose writer’ Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012

‘Simply exceptional … I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it’ Sandra Parsons, Daily Mail

‘In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIII’s right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read. A staggering achievement’ Sarah Crompton, Sunday Telegraph

‘Succeeds brilliantly in every particle … it’s an imaginative achievement to exhaust superlatives’ Spectator