Hilary Mantel, Bring Up The Bodies
The book is the second in Mantel's trilogy on Thomas Cromwell. Her first, the best-seller Wolf Hall, won the Man Booker in 2009.
Other books by Derbyshire-born Mantel, 60 - who was awarded a CBE in 2006, include Beyond Black and An Experiment In Love.
Judges said that she had shown "even greater mastery of method, powerful realism, and the separation of past and present and the vivid depiction of English character and landscape" in her latest work.
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