Great Britain’s Booker Prize for the best novel has been awarded to Hilary Mantel for Wolf Hall: A Novel, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, the religious reformer and occasionally ruthless advisor to King Henry VIII. From everything I’ve heard and considering that I have been reading other things about the Tudors, I can’t wait to read that book!
Anyway, that a representative of the sometimes looked-down-upon genre of historical fiction to take the Booker Prize has encouraged British columnist Antonia Senior to come out of the closet as a fan of that genre. Read her column