England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war.Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The quest for the petulant king's freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock…

Cast of Characters

Family Trees

PART ONE

I Across the Narrow Sea. 1500

II Paternity. 1527

III At Austin Friars. 1527

PART TWO

I Visitation. 1529

II An Occult History of Britain. 1521-1529

III Make or Mar. All Hallows 1529

PART THREE

I Three-Card Trick. Winter 1529-Spring 1530

II Entirely Beloved Cromwell. Spring-December 1530

III The Dead Complain of Their Burial.

 Christmastide 1530

PART FUUR

I Arrange Your Face．1531

II‘Alas，What Shall I Do For Love?’Spring 1532

III Early Mass．November 1532

PART FIVE

I Anna Regina．1533

II Devil's Spit．Autumn and winter 1 533

III A Painter's Eye．1534

PART SIX

I Supremacy．1534

II The Map of Christendom．1534—1 535

III T0 Wlolf Hall.July 1535

Author’S Note

Acknowledgements