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'''Overall Winner'''
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|author=Hilary Mantel
|title=Bring up the Bodies
|rating=5
|genre=Historical Fiction
|summary=
Thomas Cromwell is now very far from his humble beginnings. He is Henry VIII's chief minister. Katherine of Aragorn is no longer Queen. The Princess Mary has been disinherited. Anne Boleyn wears the crown and has produced a daughter, Elizabeth. But there is no sign of a son and Henry is beginning to regret his secession from Rome. We pick up from [[Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel|Wolf Hall]] during the royal progress of 1535 and from there, we chart the destruction of the new Queen.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0007315090</amazonuk>
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'''Novel Award'''
'''Category Winner'''
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'''Biography Award'''
|author=Kate Hubbard
|title=Serving Victoria: Life in the Royal Household
|rating=Unreviewed4.5
|genre=Biography
|summary= (Chatto & Windus) Biographies old and new of Queen Victoria, her husband and her children are plentiful enough. The vast majority of them are based to some extent on the diaries, memoirs and biographies of some of the most important figures who served her, and Kate Hubbard has put these as well as supplementary archive papers to good use in presenting a thoroughly engrossing account of the royal household throughout the Queen’s lengthy reign. I might almost say ‘lively’, though that could be an exaggeration. The court of Victoria may have been homely after a fashion, but for the most part it was hardly lively.
|amazonuk=<amazonuk>0701183683</amazonuk>
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[[category:Literary Fiction|*Costa Prize 2012]]
