Main MenuThe Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall author Hillary Mantel turns her forensic eye on Henry VIII’s Lord Chancellor, in a brand new story inspired by Holbein’s portrait.
“My dear More… but here’s the first problem. How do I address you? Sir Thomas? St Thomas? Lord Chancellor? I can’t just call you Thomas. Half the men in England are called that. Anyway, I don’t feel that kind of easy warmth, though one of your modern biographers says that most people who work with you end up liking you. Liking you, disliking you.”
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