How long does it take to read Bring Up the Bodies?
Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel takes about 7 hours 55 minutes to read at 250 words a minute.
Part of Wolf Hall
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About 7 hours 55 minutes
A weekend read
First published 2012. 432 pages, about 118,800 words.
16 days at 30 minutes a day
Estimate based on 275 words per page.
At other speeds
| Slow, 150 words a minute | 13 hours 12 minutes |
| Average, 250 words a minute | 7 hours 55 minutes |
| Fast, 400 words a minute | 4 hours 57 minutes |
The page count is the median across 55 editions, so your copy may differ. How we calculate.
About the book
Bring Up the Bodies is a historical novel by Hilary Mantel; sequel to the award-winning Wolf Hall; and part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, the powerful minister in the court of King Henry VIII. It won the 2012 Man Booker Prize and the 2012 Costa Book of the Year. The final novel in the trilogy, The Mirror and the Light, was published in March 2020.
Subjects: Fiction, historical fiction, literary fiction, Man Booker Prize Winner, History, Historical
