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 detail, with summaries, background, footnotes and tangents to enrich your reading. I am joined on this journey by Lucie Bea Dutton,, who delves into the archive on our behalf, and Matt Brown, who makes maps to help us find our way through Cromwell’s world.

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