Hilary mantel

“Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” the first books in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, have sold millions. Now the two-time Booker Prize winner is finishing the job with “The Mirror and the Light.”

The team behind the seventh Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival are looking forward to welcoming more first class authors, historians and biographers to East Devon in September. Tickets for this year’s festival will be available online on Friday 24th July from 5pm, and offer the opportunity to see the usual mix of best-selling, award winning and inspirational authors, including Paula Hawkins, author of record breaking novel, The Girl On The Train, which has been on top of the UK hardback…

Larissa MacFarquhar writes about the author Hilary Mantel, who has died at the age of seventy. The author of “Wolf Hall” and many other works of historical fiction saw little distinction between the living and the dead.

On 21 May 2019, a billboard appeared in Leicester Square. It featured a Tudor rose and the slogan “So now get up”. There was no context, no release date, no website address or hashtag to follow. Fans

When we hear the word Tudors, most of us picture tight corsets, twirling court dances, and King Henry VIII collecting wives like Pokémon cards; except he didn’t “catch ’em all” so much as execute a…

Peter Kosminsky hails novelist behind tale of dark arts in court of Henry VIII as it returns to TV screens after 10 years

‘Is this story true?’ readers invevitably ask. In the first of her BBC Reith Lectures, the double Man Booker prize-winning author explores the complicated relationship between history, fact and fiction

Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel has died suddenly aged 70, following a massive stroke. The bestselling author passed away surrounded by close friends 'suddenly yet peacefully'.

Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker Prize tonight with Bring Up the Bodies, the second instalment in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, which began with 2009's winner, Wolf Hall.

The Booker prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy has died aged 70. Here are some of her best quotes on writing, illness, the monarchy and more

Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's award-winning novel about the fictional life of Thomas Cromwell, will have not one sequel, but two - as the author changes her plans to write a Tudor trilogy.

“Once the queen’s head is severed, he walks away. A sharp pang of appetite reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast, or perhaps an early dinner.”

Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.

Female writers struggle for attention, but change is afoot with a new literary prize.

Read a list of beloved British writer Hilary Mantel’s best book recommendations. For more favorite reading lists from famous authors, actors, musicians and more, check out the Radical Reads book blog.

A portrait of Booker Prize-winning novelist Hilary Mantel will become the first painting of a living writer to be displayed in the British Library.

At the start of “The Mirror and the Light,” the concluding volume of a trilogy that began with “Wolf Hall,” Cromwell is 50 years old, rich beyond all his imagining and very much alone.

Final part of Wolf Hall, now on the West End stage, is under fire from English Heritage for its ‘Tudor bias’ in charting history

Her historical novels are adored by millions – but what book has had the greatest impact on her and what's the best book she has ever received as a gift?

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