{"href":"https://api.simplecast.com/oembed?url=https%3A%2F%2Fgood-scribes-only.simplecast.com%2Fepisodes%2F156-wolf-hall-mini-K6m2ReZt","width":444,"version":"1.0","type":"rich","title":"#156 It's All Been Done Before","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_url":"https://image.simplecastcdn.com/images/dc0bf27c-409e-4d1e-9c3d-be80c45f3ec3/05571803-f115-47fc-8d8e-c5045ab9aa37/s8e8.jpg","thumbnail_height":300,"provider_url":"https://simplecast.com","provider_name":"Simplecast","html":"<iframe src=\"https://player.simplecast.com/e30576fe-a225-478f-a91a-d0c5f75c599e\" height=\"200\" width=\"100%\" title=\"#156 It&apos;s All Been Done Before\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"no\"></iframe>","height":200,"description":"About the Book:\n\nPublished in 2009, Wolf Hall reimagines the rise of Thomas Cromwell, one of the most enigmatic and powerful figures in Tudor England. Set during the reign of Henry VIII, the novel traces Cromwell’s ascent from the son of a blacksmith to the king’s chief minister, moving through a court defined by ambition, betrayal, and shifting loyalties.\n\nHillary Mantel’s bold narrative voice places readers inside Cromwell’s mind, offering an intimate, morally complex portrait of power in motion. Rather than treating history as spectacle, Wolf Hall examines how decisions are made, alliances are forged, and survival depends on perception as much as principle. The novel won the Man Booker Prize and reshaped historical fiction with its psychological depth, stylistic precision, and radical re-centering of a long-maligned figure."}