Mantel booked another Booker

British writer Hilary Mantel won the prestigious Booker literary prize for the second time for Being Up the Bodies. Mantel, who took the 50,000 pound award in 2009 for Wolf Hall, is the first British author, and first woman, to acheive a Booker double. Bring Up the Bodies is also the first sequel to win the prize.
It and Wolf Hall are parts of a planned trilogy about Thomas Cromwell,  the powerful and ambiguous chief minister to King Henry VIII. "I regard this an act of faith and a vote of confidence," she commented.