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Books like Wolf Hall
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel: what to read next, and why.
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The Other Boleyn Girl
Tells much the same court story from the Boleyn sisters' side, in a more romantic and fast-paced style.
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The Pillars of the Earth
A big, absorbing historical novel about ambition and the powerful, set in an earlier England.
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The Name of the Rose
Another intellectual historical novel that mixes politics, religion and puzzles.