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(b.Hilary Mary Mantel CBE, née Thompson, is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards. In 2009, she won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall.
Genres: Historical, Literary Fiction
Series
Thomas Cromwell Trilogy
1. Wolf Hall (2009)
2. Bring up the Bodies (2012)
3. The Mirror And The Light (2019)
Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies (omnibus) (2012)
1. Wolf Hall (2009)
2. Bring up the Bodies (2012)
3. The Mirror And The Light (2019)
Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies (omnibus) (2012)
Novels
Every Day Is Mother's Day (1985)
Vacant Possession (1986)
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988)
Fludd (1989)
A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
A Change of Climate (1994)
An Experiment in Love (1995)
The Giant, O'Brien (1998)
Beyond Black (2005)
Vacant Possession (1986)
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988)
Fludd (1989)
A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
A Change of Climate (1994)
An Experiment in Love (1995)
The Giant, O'Brien (1998)
Beyond Black (2005)
Omnibus
Collections
Learning to Talk (2003)
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (2012)
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 (2015) (with Jonathan Buckley, Mark Haddon, Frances Leviston and Jeremy Page)
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (2012)
The BBC National Short Story Award 2015 (2015) (with Jonathan Buckley, Mark Haddon, Frances Leviston and Jeremy Page)
Novellas
Curved is the Line of Beauty (2011)
Third Floor Rising (2011)
Comma (2011)
King Billy is a Gentleman (2011)
How Shall I Know You? (2014)
The School of English (2015)
Third Floor Rising (2011)
Comma (2011)
King Billy is a Gentleman (2011)
How Shall I Know You? (2014)
The School of English (2015)
Non fiction
Awards
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Hilary Mantel recommends
Newton's Niece (1994)
Derek Beaven
"An important and original writer... a wonderfully capacious and vivid book."
Hoi Polloi (1999)
Craig Sherborne
"I read the first sentence and then pushed the day's work aside and sat down to read it all."
The Hamilton Case (2003)
Michelle de Kretser
"A mesmeric study of a family, a scandal and a murder, set in Ceylon in the 1930s."
Wild Boy (2003)
Jill Dawson
"Dawson's prose is graceful, her approach deeply intelligent and persuasive...a fine novel."
The Curewife (2003)
Claire-Marie Watson
"A story of subtlety and dark intrigue told with immense skill."
The Amnesia Clinic (2006)
James Scudamore
"A wonderful debut - witty, polished, fluent and effortlessly entertaining."
Blackmoor (2008)
Edward Hogan
"Ed's voice is utterly distinctive: strong, emotive, haunting. His powers of observation seem almost supernatural. I am struck by the careful, line-by-line craftsmanship of the writing, as well as the bold design of the whole. What I notice is how he sets the tone and keeps to it - it's quite rare to find such resolution and clarity of purpose in a first novel."
Touching Distance (2008)
Rebecca Abrams
"Evokes beautifully a revolutionary world - science and politics in upheaval, the casualties strewn around."
Saving Rafael (2009)
Leslie Wilson
"I found Saving Rafael completely gripping. Leslie Wilson is a great natural storyteller, and the background of wartime Berlin is absorbing and totally convincing."
The Golden Mean (2009)
Annabel Lyon
"One of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read. Lyon makes her reader avid for every detail of this strange world."
Savage Lands (2010)
Clare Clark
"Vigorous and intense, energetic and absorbing... An extraordinary feat of imagination."
The Champion (2011)
Tim Binding
"A chilling portrait of provincial egos on the loose. Shamefully entertaining."
The Emperor of Lies (2011)
Steve Sem-Sandberg
"Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved... stunning."
Obedience (2011)
Jacqueline Yallop
"An intensely imagined novel about one of the defining questions of the century just past: where and how we choose to draw the line between innocence and guilt, ignorance and complicity. Obedience also asks us to consider what ghastly harm is committed in the name of love. It's rare to find a book that is seemingly so simple, but is really ambiguous and thought-provoking."
The Lifeboat (2012)
Charlotte Rogan
"What a splendid book. It rivets the reader's attention, and at the same time it seethes with layered ambiguity."
The Stories (2012)
Jane Gardam
"Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our finest writers."
The Quick (2014)
Lauren Owen
"A sly and glittering addition to the literature of the macabre . . . As soon as you have breathed with relief, much worse horrors begin. It's a skilled, assured performance, and it's hard to believe it is a first novel."
The Offering (2015)
Grace McCleen
"She is a finished artist, but performs on the page with the aerial grace of someone who senses no limits to what she can do."
Broken Faith (2015)
(Kingmaker, book 2)
Toby Clements
"An enthralling, honest and powerful re-imagining of the War of the Rose,"
In the Month of the Midnight Sun (2016)
Cecilia Ekbäck
"Visually acute, skillfully written, it won't easily erase its tracks in the reader's mind."
How to Be Human (2017)
Paula Cocozza
"An intriguing and subversive debut, an eerie tale that acts on the reader like a ghost story."
Rotherweird (2017)
(Rotherweird, book 1)
Andrew Caldecott
"Intricate and crisp, witty and solemn: a book with special and dangerous properties."
Missing Fay (2017)
Adam Thorpe
"If you believe that English fiction is jaded, you must read Adam Thorpe."
The Cartography Of Others (2018)
Catherine McNamara
"Robust yet finely worked...striking in its confidence and originality."
Dark Water (2018)
Elizabeth Lowry
"A sparkling, accomplished novel, written with finesse, each paragraph glowing with wit and the whole book alight with mischief."
Four Soldiers (2018)
Hubert Mingarelli
"I am astonished by Four Soldiers. I have never read anything like it, yet it is one of those books you feel must always have existed, a classic of writing about the human condition. Short and deceptively simple, it reads like a message from the unheard, news from unwitnessed lives, building letter by letter to its crushing final page. A small miracle of a book, perfectly imagined and perfectly achieved."
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