Winter Break: A short story by Hilary Mantel
Introduction: In her short story Winter Break, Man Booker-winning author Hilary Mantel tells the tale of a couple whose holiday gets off to a (very) bad startBy the time they arrived at their...
View ArticleFinding the missing man
Introduction: To a rock-concert sized audience at Hay, Hilary Mantel revealed how she found Thomas Cromwell again“Cromwell is a man who has erased his traces,” said Hilary Mantel, Man Booker-winner for...
View ArticleWolf Hall heads to TV
Mantel, Hilary.jpgHilary Mantel's Man Booker-winning novel is being adapted for BBC2Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall is to be turned into a costume drama by the man who brought...
View ArticleExtract: Bring Up the Bodies
Introduction: An extract from the opening of Hilary Mantel's Booker winner Bring Up the BodiesHis children are falling from the sky. He watches from horseback, acres of England stretching behind him;...
View ArticleHilary Mantel on Costa shortlist
Hilary-Mantel-010.jpg_.jpegHilary Mantel, James Meek, Stephen May and graphic novelist Joff Winterhart are all up for Costa's Novel of the Year prizeHilary Mantel could be adding to her awards haul...
View ArticleKing of the Hil: Mantel wins Costa Book of the Year
mantel wltb1.jpgHilary Mantel has won the Costa Book of the Year for her Man Booker-winning novel Bring Up the BodiesThe decision was "unanimous" according to chair of judges Jenni Murray, who said:...
View ArticleThe Women's Prize: a man's perspective
Blogger and Green Carnation Prize founder Simon Savidge accepts our challenge to read the Women's Prize for Fiction shortlistAs a man I wonder if I am meant to find little of interest in the Women’s...
View ArticleWomen's Prize for Fiction shortlist
womens prize.jpgTonight sees the announcement of the Women's Prize for Fiction - here's the shortlistTonight, 5 June, the winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction - formerly the Orange Prize - will be...
View ArticleA M Homes wins Women's Prize for Fiction 2013
am-wltb.jpgHomes wins with sixth novelAmerican novelist A M Homes has won this year's £30,000 Women's Prize for Fiction with her novel May We Be Forgiven, beating Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith to the...
View ArticleOn being ill: HIlary Mantel
hilary-mantel-img.jpgThe Man Booker-winning author Hilary Mantel on what it feels like to be a patientThe visitor’s idea of hospital is different from the patient’s idea.Visitors imagine themselves...
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