Bring up the Bodies will be shorter than the 672-page Wolf Hall, Mantel added.
Award-winning author Hilary Mantel has begun writing a sequel to her 2009 Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall.
The Wolf Hall author will be presented with the Bodley Medal for outstanding achievement in literature on 24 March.
The 2009 Booker judges described Wolf Hall as "an extraordinary piece of story-telling".
The most predictable inclusion is Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, a worthy sequel to the Booker-winning Wolf Hall.
She became the first living UK author to receive the prize twice, having won it for its prequel Wolf Hall.
"Bring up the Bodies" and "Wolf Hall" are being adapted into a six-part series for the BBC and stage plays.
Just days after the sequel to Hilary Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall was announced, the author has revealed plans for a third instalment.
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are currently being adapted into a six-part series for BBC Two, expected to be broadcast late next year.
The double-bill of Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies premieres in the Swan Theatre, with the two works playing in repertoire from December to March.
Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.
Bring Up the Bodies, winner of this year's prize, continues Cromwell's story, to be concluded in The Mirror and the Light, the culmination of Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy.
Wolf Hall followed the life of Thomas Cromwell from his impoverished beginnings as the son of a violent blacksmith, to his meteoric rise in the court of King Henry VIII.
Wolf Hall, the first of her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, has already more than doubled this week, rising from 15th to 7th on the bestseller list, while sales of the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, rose by 69%.
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