Wolf Crawl: A slow read of Hilary Mantel's Cromwell Trilogy

Welcome to the main page for the 2025 slow read of Hilary Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy: Wolf Hall, Bring up the Bodies, and The Mirror and the Light.

Here is an introduction to the read-along:

So now, read Wolf Hall with us!

• The Reading Schedule (with links to the weekly updates)

• The Weekly Updates (footnotes, tangents, themes and discussion)

• The Haunting of Wolf Hall (studying the phantoms in the Cromwell trilogy)

• The Cast of the Cromwell Trilogy (plot summaries for every character)

• Wolf Hall Online Resources (further reading, video and audio on the trilogy)

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To keep up-to-date with the read-along, turn on notifications for Cromwell Trilogy:

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