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Completed book guides
Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
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Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel
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Slows reads 2024
The Cromwell trilogy by Hilary Mantel
Join hundreds of readers on a slow read of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy. Read around 40 pages a week over one year, from Putney to Tower Hill: Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies, The Mirror and the Light.
War and Peace by Leo Tolstoy
A slow read of Tolstoy’s masterpiece, a chapter a day for 361 days. Join the daily chat and read weekly summaries, background and analysis.
Coming in 2025…
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
The Siege of Krishnapur by J G Farrell
Things Fall Apart by Chinua Achebe
The Blue Flower by Penelope Fitzgerald
My guided audiobooks on Audrey
Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
The Death of Ivan Ilyich by Leo Tolstoy
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll