Choose your weapon: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall out now on your iPhone!

This is the first of the top secret iPhone projects I’ve been working on for the last few months – the result of a close collaboration between Fourth Estate and the awesome Enhanced Editions (founded by longtime 5th Estate friend and contributor, Peter Collingridge). Finally all the hard work has come to fruition, and we can announce…

WOLF HALL by Hilary Mantel, out now in paperback, and on your iPhone. Choose your weapon!

About Wolf Hall:

‘It is The Book, without question, that leaves every other novel I have read this year in its wake. Magnificent’ James Naughtie, Sunday Telegraph, Books of the Year.

‘A stunning book. It breaks free of what the novel has become nowadays. I can’t think of anything since Middlemarch which so convincingly builds a world.’ Diana Athill

‘The most gripping book you’ll ever read’ The Times

‘Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good’ Daily Mail

‘A superb epic work’ Kate Mosse, author of Labyrinth

‘Genuinely outstanding’ Independent

‘A feast’ Daily Telegraph

‘Bewitching’ Observer

The Wolf Hall App is a feature-packed ebook version of the 2009 Man Booker prize winning Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. In Wolf Hall, Mantel, one of UK’s leading writers, brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. Wolf Hall is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s courtiers.

“We’re thrilled to be launching this app on the App Store at the same time as our paperback publication of the phenomenon that is Wolf Hall,” said Press Books MD, John Bond. “The enhanced app for iPhone and iPod touch gives us an opportunity to reach readers who want to experience the book in an exciting new way.”

“Releasing an enhanced edition of the most successful Man Booker prize winner ever shows the incredible growth and authority now associated with reading on iPhone and iPod touch,” said Peter Collingridge, Enhanced Editions. “This is a book that defies simple categorisation and we expect it to gain a whole new audience now that it is also an app.”

About this enhanced edition

Hilary Mantel’s Booker Prize-winning novel has now been tailor-made for the iPhone. It includes the full ebook, a set of video interviews between Hilary Mantel and Professor David Starkey, and other great extras.

As well as a paid app at £6.99 (paperback RRP £8.99) there’s also a free app which contains chapter one of Wolf Hall, the news feed, and a short clip from the video discussion.

More information…

About the author:

Hilary Mantel is the author of twelve books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Giving up the Ghost and Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize. Wolf Hall won the 2009 Man Booker Prize and was shortlisted for the 2009 Costa Novel Award.

About the publisher:

Founded by Victoria Barnsley in 1984 and acquired by HarperCollins in 2000, Fourth Estate is one of the most innovative imprints in the industry with a reputation for selecting critically-acclaimed titles such as Half of a Yellow Sun by Orange Broadband prize-winner Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Notes from an Exhibition by Patrick Gale and the 2009 Man Booker Prize winner Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel. Recent non-fiction successes include Bad Science by Ben Goldacre and Tender Volume 1 by Nigel Slater.

About Enhanced Editions:

Founded by a team of former publishers in 2009, Enhanced Editions has the singular vision of bringing the iPhone the reading experience it deserves.

Our apps include titles by Nick Cave, Barack Obama, David Simon and David Eagleman, and have been described as “the moment digital publishing came of age” (The Bookseller). As well as receiving outstanding user acclaim, our apps have featured in Apple’s “Best Apps of 2009″; The Observer’s “Best Cultural Apps of 2009″; and Wallpaper / Wolff Olins’ “Ten Things to Change The World in 2010″. Enhanced Editions also won the eConsultancy “Innovation in User Experience” award in 2009 and have been shortlisted for the Media Guardian Innovation awards.

Read more…

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More about Wolf Hall:

• Read an interview with Hilary Mantel
• Watch Hilary Mantel at the Daunt Debates
• Hilary’s Backlist on Bookarmy
• Wolf Hall on wheels