The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel exclusive extract – hear Ben Miles read the audiobook

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The first chapter of the final volume of Mantel’s award-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy opens at the execution of Anne Boleyn. Performed by actor Ben Miles, who has played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptations of Mantel’s books, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies

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Dame Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize winning author, in 2017
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