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1 online resource (1 audio file) |
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390000 |
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digital rda |
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audio file rda |
| Summary |
""If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?" England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?"--Publisher. |
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Downloadable audio file. |
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Read by Ben Miles. |
| Summary |
A tale inspired by the final years of Thomas Cromwell describes how after the execution of Anne Boleyn and childbed death of Queen Jane, the former blacksmit́hs son orchestrates a desperate plot to fortify England and save his own life. |
| System Details |
Requires Boundless App. |
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Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540 -- Fiction.
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Cromwell, Thomas, Earl of Essex, 1485?-1540. |
| Chronological Term |
1509-1547 |
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Courts and courtiers -- Fiction.
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Courts and courtiers. |
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Great Britain -- History -- Henry VIII, 1509-1547 -- Fiction.
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Great Britain. |
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Historical fiction.
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Audiobooks.
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books. |
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Downloadable audio books. |
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Audiobooks.
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Biographical fiction.
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Fiction.
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Historical fiction.
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History.
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Historical fiction.
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Biographical fiction.
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Miles, Ben, narrator.
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Mirror and the light |
| Other Form: |
Electronic reproduction of (manifestation): Mantel, Hilary, 1952- Mirror & the light New York, NY : Macmillan Audio, [2020] 9781427289513 (OCoLC)1145001924 |
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9781427289520 : |
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1427289522 : |
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