Wolf Hall followed the life of Thomas Cromwell from his impoverished beginnings as the son of a violent blacksmith, to his meteoric rise in the court of King Henry VIII.

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Edward IV went on to rule, with a brief interruption, until his death 22 years later a death that triggered the final stage of the conflict and the rise of a new dynasty under Henry Tudor.

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Chronicling Thomas Cromwell's rise from blacksmith's son to a prominent position in Henry VIII's court, the novel became a best-seller after winning the 2009 Man Booker Prize and various other awards.

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Henry Goodman won best performance in a play for The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui, also from the Chichester theatre.

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Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.

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Henry Blodget, of Merrill Lynch, puts the recent decline down to the rise in interest rates last month.

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