Monthly Archives: May 2012

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Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies Out Now

Yesterday’s release of Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies was frenzied and wonderful, sparking a kind of unbridled enthusiasm that is impossible to capture in text. High streets across the country sparkled with red and gold, and twitter and Facebook hummed to the din of … Continue reading

Author, Joanna Blythman photographed in her Edinburgh home.


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Joanna Blythman’s Blog – Morrisons’ GM Muck Up

Morrisons’ rearguard decision to allow its farmers to use GM feed looks spectacularly ill-informed and dumb, when Carrefour labels own-label meat and dairy products as GM animal feed-free, or ‘Nourri sans OGM’. If the world’s second largest retailer can guarantee … Continue reading

8th May

Hilary Mantel: ‘A writer knows when they have come to the book that they were meant to be writing all along’

With such a spectacular burst of review coverage over the weekend, here’s Hilary talking about the success of Wolf Hall and introducing the book on everyone’s lips – Bring Up The Bodies…

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Dan Lepard’s Short and Sweet shortlisted for Cookery Book of the Year Award

Yet more good news on the awards front!  Short and Sweet by Dan Lepard has been shortlisted for the Guild of Food Writers Cookery Book of the Year Award. The shortlist for this category is as follows: SHORT AND SWEET by … Continue reading

Countdown to Bring Up The Bodies

Hilary Mantel on Thomas Cromwell: ‘I could make it different, I could make it come up fresh and new’

With only nine days till publication, here’s another teaser clip to whet your appetites… Hilary Mantel, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning ‘Wolf Hall’ and its sequel ‘Bring Up The Bodies’, talks about her main character Thomas Cromwell.