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Five from 4th Estate

What do Patti Smith, Hilary Mantel and photos of Dublin have in common? They all feature on this week’s Five from 4th Estate, of course. Five online things to kick off the weekend. What could be sweeter? Who doesn’t love … Continue reading

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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

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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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.