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Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of eleven books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Giving Up the Ghost, Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize, and Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize.

She reviews widely for a range of newspapers and magazines, and is currently working on the sequel to Wolf Hall, originally to be names The Mirror and The Light, the new title will be announced shortly.

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BRING UP THE BODIES [ePub edition]

The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall.

Publication date: UK 10th May 2012

BRING UP THE BODIES

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The sequel to the Man Booker-winning Wolf Hall.

Publication date: UK 10th May 2012

A CHANGE OF CLIMATE [ePub edition]

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From the violent townships of South Africa to the windswept countryside of Norfolk, this is an epic yet subtle family saga about what happens when trust is broken, when secrets are buried and when lives must be torn apart before they can be put back together again.

Publication date: UK 24th Jun 2010

THE GIANT, O’BRIEN [ePub edition]

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The Giant, O’Brien is based on the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon Charles Hunter. O’Brien’s bones hang to this day in the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Field, despite O’Brien’s best endeavours to avoid such a fate.

Publication date: UK 24th Jun 2010

VACANT POSSESSION [ePub edition]

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‘Savage and funny black humour at its best’ Time Out

Publication date: UK 24th Jun 2010

EIGHT MONTHS ON GHAZZAH STREET [ePub edition]

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Mantel’s prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. ‘Horrifyingly gripping. It urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read.' Grace Ingoldby, Sunday Times

Publication date: UK 6th May 2010

FLUDD [ePub edition]

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One of Hilary Mantel’s classic novels, this is a dark fable of lost faith, mysterious omens and awakening love set among the priests and nuns of a surreal English town deep in the northern moors.

Publication date: UK 6th May 2010

AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE [ePub edition]

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Following on from ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off to the new preoccupations of 1970s London.

Publication date: UK 6th May 2010

LEARNING TO TALK: Short stories [ePub edition]

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In the wake of Hilary Mantel’s captivating memoir, ‘Giving Up the Ghost’, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

Publication date: UK 6th May 2010

EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY [ePub edition]

Cover of: EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY [ePub edition]

Hilary Mantel’s superb story of suburban mayhem and revenge is sharp, merciless and unerringly hilarious.

Publication date: UK 6th May 2010

A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY

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A gripping and celebrated epic from Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Beyond Black’, this is the story of three young men who find themselves in Paris at the dawn of the French Revolution.

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

BEYOND BLACK

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A comic yet sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘A Place of Greater Safety’.

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

GIVING UP THE GHOST: A memoir

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From one of Britain’s finest authors, a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family.

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

THE GIANT, O’BRIEN

Cover of: THE GIANT, O’BRIEN

Based on the true story, this is the tale of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien. He was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon Charles Hunter, and his bones hang to this day in the Hunterian Museum in Lincoln’s Inn Field.

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

A CHANGE OF CLIMATE

Cover of: A CHANGE OF CLIMATE

From the violent townships of South Africa to the windswept countryside of Norfolk, this is an epic yet subtle family saga about what happens when trust is broken, when secrets are buried and when lives must be torn apart before they can be put back together again.

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE

Cover of: AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE

Following on from ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel follows two girls as they leave behind their pasts and set off to the new preoccupations of 1970s London.

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

FLUDD

Cover of: FLUDD

‘Fludd’ is a dark fable of lost faith, mysterious omens and awakening love set among the priests and nuns of a surreal English town deep in the northern moors.

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

WOLF HALL

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

Publication date: UK 4th Mar 2010

WOLF HALL [Enhanced edition; Apple App store-only]

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

Publication date: UK 16th Jan 2010

GIVING UP THE GHOST: A memoir [ePub edition]

Cover of: GIVING UP THE GHOST: A memoir [ePub edition]

From one of Britain’s finest authors at work today, a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family.

Publication date: UK 17th Dec 2009

BEYOND BLACK [ePub edition]

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A comic yet sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘A Place of Greater Safety’.

Publication date: UK 17th Dec 2009

WOLF HALL [Special Signed Limited edition]

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

Publication date: UK 26th Nov 2009

WOLF HALL [Special edition]

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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

Publication date: UK 12th Nov 2009

A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY [ePub edition]

Cover of: A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY [ePub edition]

A gripping and celebrated epic from Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Beyond Black’, this is the story of three young men who find themselves in Paris at the dawn of the French Revolution.

Publication date: UK 12th Nov 2009

WOLF HALL

Cover of: WOLF HALL

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

Publication date: UK 30th Apr 2009

WOLF HALL [ePub edition]

Cover of: WOLF HALL [ePub edition]

Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'

Publication date: UK 30th Apr 2009

The Perennial Collection — BEYOND BLACK

Cover of: The Perennial Collection — BEYOND BLACK

An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'.

Publication date: UK 4th Feb 2008

EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY

Cover of: EVERY DAY IS MOTHER’S DAY

Hilary Mantel’s superb story of suburban mayhem and revenge is sharp, merciless and unerringly hilarious.

Publication date: UK 16th Jan 2006

VACANT POSSESSION

Cover of: VACANT POSSESSION

‘Savage and funny black humour at its best’ Time Out

Publication date: UK 16th Jan 2006

EIGHT MONTHS ON GHAZZAH STREET

Cover of: EIGHT MONTHS ON GHAZZAH STREET

Mantel’s prescient and haunting novel of life in Saudi Arabia. ‘Horrifyingly gripping. It urges the reader to suspend normal life entirely until the book is read.' Grace Ingoldby, Sunday Times

Publication date: UK 7th Jun 2004

LEARNING TO TALK: Short stories

Cover of: LEARNING TO TALK: Short stories

In the wake of Hilary Mantel’s captivating memoir, ‘Giving Up the Ghost’, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

Publication date: UK 7th Jul 2003