The third and final instalment of bestselling and award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, The Mirror & the Light by English writer Hilary Mantel was published almost 2 years before her demise. This 2020 historical saga followed by the first book of the series, Wolf Hall which brought Mantel her first Booker in 2009. She received her second Booker for Bring Up the Bodies in 2012, also the second book in this series.

 The Mirror & the Light focuses the last four years of Thomas Cromwell, the controversial minister in the court of King Henry VIII. The book covers events from 1536 until his death by execution in 1540.