Bring Up the Bodies
British novelist, 1952–2022. Won the Booker Prize in 2009 and 2012, the Costa Novel Award in 2012 and the Walter Scott Prize in 2010 and 2021.
Bring Up the Bodies is a 2012 novel by Hilary Mantel. It won the Booker Prize in 2012 and the Costa Novel Award in 2012.
On 6 of the 18 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Hilary Mantel
- First published
- 2012
- Length
- 528 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize winner, 2012
- Costa Novel Award winner, 2012
- Women's Prize for Fiction shortlist, 2013
- Walter Scott Prize shortlist, 2013
- Genre
- Historical fiction, Political
- Series
- Book 2 of The Wolf Hall trilogy
Is Bring Up the Bodies worth reading?
6 of the 18 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Booker Prize and the Costa Novel Award.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 2012) | Winner | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 2012) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best books of the 21st century (The New York Times, 2024) | No. 95 | See the list |
| Walter Scott Prize (winners and shortlists) (Abbotsford Trust, 2013) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Waterstones Book of the Year (winners and shortlists) (Waterstones, 2012-) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Women's Prize for Fiction (winners and shortlists) (Women's Prize Trust, 2013) | Shortlist | See the list |
Best edition of Bring Up the Bodies
The edition we link to is the Fourth Estate paperback (2019), 528 pages.
- Publisher
- Fourth Estate (paperback, 2019)
- Pages
- 528
- ISBN
- 9780008381684
How critics, prizes and readers rate Bring Up the Bodies
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 67% of the points available on prize lists, against 14% on critics' lists and 13% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like Bring Up the Bodies
If you liked Bring Up the Bodies, try Wolf Hall, The Mirror & the Light or Midnight's Children.
