Hilary Mantel
(Hilary Mary Mantel)
(1952 - )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.
Series
Thomas Cromwell Trilogy
1. Wolf Hall (2009)
2. Bring up the Bodies (2012)
Wolf Hall / Bring Up The Bodies (omnibus) (2012)
1. Wolf Hall (2009)
2. Bring up the Bodies (2012)
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
Novellas
Non fiction
Awards
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Hilary Mantel recommends
 The Dark (1965) John McGahern "One of the greatest writers of our era." |  Newton's Niece (1994) Derek Beaven "An important and original writer... a wonderfully capacious and vivid book." |  Trespass (1998) D J Taylor "Painfully funny... The product of a mature and original talent." | |
 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. " |  The Curewife (2003) Claire-Marie Watson "A story of subtlety and dark intrigue told with immense skill." | |
 Wild Boy (2003) Jill Dawson "Dawson's prose is graceful, her approach deeply intelligent and persuasive...a fine novel." |  The Amnesia Clinic (2006) James Scudamore "A wonderful debut - witty, polished, fluent and effortlessly entertaining." |  Loving Mephistopheles (2007) Miranda Miller "An epic narrative full of energy, with the wild and joyful inventiveness of an Angela Carter story. Enjoyable and ingenious." | |
 Cheating at Canasta (2007) William Trevor "Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling." |  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." |  Glister (2008) John Burnside "A master of language." | |
 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." |  Pictures of Lily (2010) Matthew Yorke "Distinctive, energetic... the narrative takes a real grip." |  The Champion (2011) Tim Binding "A chilling portrait of provincial egos on the loose. Shamefully entertaining." | |
 Girl Reading (2011) Katie Ward "A debut of rare individuality and distinction." |  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 Sister (2012) Lynne Alexander "Warm and accomplished." |  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 Stories (2014) Jane Gardam "Sharp, humane, generous and wonderfully funny, she is one of our finest writers." |  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." |