All of the answer options are titles by the English author Hilary Mantel. "A Place of Greater Safety" is a novel about the French revolution. The other three answers are the titles of the three volumes of Mantel's fictionalised biography of Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII's chief minister.

The term "chief minister" is widely used by historians today since the governmental roles and the official titles attached to them were much more fluid in Tudor times than in many modern governments. Thomas Cromwell -- the chief minister of Henry VIII – bore a number of official titles including Chancellor of the Exchequer, Lord Privy Seal, Secretary of State, Master of the Rolls'.

Mantel’s trilogy deals with the plots, the intrigues and the brutal executions for treason during Henry’s reign. The series begins with “Wolf Hall” and concludes with “The Mirror & the Light”. The title of the second book is revealing, perhaps shocking: "Bring up the bodies" is a legal term used in the sixteenth century. It is an instruction to make available to the trial process the prisoners accused of treason. The prisoners – the “bodies” – are referred to as though they were already dead.

In an interview Hilary Mantel described her reaction when she discovered the document that contained this instruction. She knew she was on to a winner.

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