Welcome to Wolf Crawl. I am your guide, Simon Haisell, and this is a year-long slow read of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, and The Mirror & the Light.

Each week, I dive into the details to provide summaries, background, footnotes and tangents to enrich your reading. I share the paintings, poetry and music mentioned in the books, and I provide links to help you explore more of Cromwell’s world.

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