This year's winner of the Man Booker Prize is Hilary Mantel for her novel Bring Up the Bodies, the second book in her Thomas Cromwell Trilogy. Hilary Mantel is the first woman and the third author to win the award twice. She is also the first author to win with a sequel; she won in 2009 for Wolf Hall. J.M. Coetzee and Peter Carey are the other double winners.

Mantel is currently working on the third volume of the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light.