Books read and heard in January / February

[gervase_fen]

 1) Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel, read by Dan Stevens
 2) The Kraken Wakes by John Wyndham, read by Alex Jennings
 3) Doctor Who - The One Doctor, by Clayton Hickman and Gareth Roberts
 4) Doctor Who - The Four Doctors, by Peter Anghelides
 5) Empire of the Atom by A E Van Vogt
 6) Of Time and Stars by Arthur C Clarke
 7) The Last Battle by C S Lewis

Comments

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

What did you think of Wolf Hall, and do you know if it's true that there will be a sequel?

[gervase-fen.livejournal.com]

I couldn't get on with it as a paperback, but devoured it as an audiobook. Dan Steven's narration is beautifully judged and his character voices are superb - Wolsey well-fed, benign and gracious; Thomas More, exacting and caustic; Anne Boleyn deliciously bitchy. It ends very abruptly - I was anticipating a big set piece finale in Wolf Hall which doesn't happen!

According to the Guardian's account of the Booker Prize ceremony, "Mantel said she has started work on the sequel to Wolf Hall, which will be titled The Mirror And The Light. "What I have got at the moment is a huge box of notes," she added."

[pellegrina.livejournal.com]

I found the paperback very hard to get into, until I got used to "he" *always* meaning Cromwell. I may have to pick up the audiobook when The Mirror And The Light comes along. Some 10 years from now...