Or buy the whole trilogy at Amazon and Bookshop The key to gifting books is to know your audience: What do they like to read? For my history buff friends, I always recommend "Wolf Hall" and the other two books in Hilary Mantel's trilogy about Thomas Cromwell during the reign of Henry VIII (assuming they have not read them yet). Both "Wolf Hall" and "Bringing Up the Bodies" won the Booker Prize, and the third volume in the trilogy, "The Mirror and the Light," was nominated. Awards aren't everything, but these books truly shine with unique storytelling, shifting perspectives, and prose that makes you feel like you're inside Cromwell's head.