Category Archives: Hilary Mantel

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4th Estate Wins Imprint of the Year!

We’re absolutely delighted to announce this morning that 4th Estate and Publishing Director Nick Pearson won Imprint & Editor of the Year at last night’s Bookseller Industry Awards, which took place at the Hilton Park Lane in central London.

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4x4th Estate: Keeping the Faith

Keeping the Faith 4 books that probe the limits of belief, recommended to you by us at 4th Estate.

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Five from 4th Estate

We’ve done it again: boiled the internet down to the five things you need to see, read and do this week. This weekend’s entertainment brought to you by us at 4th Estate. If Hilary Mantel had to give any one person … Continue reading

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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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Five from 4th Estate

Five from 4th Estate: revealing the most interesting corners of the internet, one page at a time. This week listen, watch and read the best things we’ve found online just for you, from us at 4th Estate. Michael Chabon’s terrific … Continue reading

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Hilary Mantel’s Bring Up The Bodies Wins the Man Booker Prize

We are absolutely delighted to announce that Bring Up The Bodies has won the 2012 Man Booker Prize, making Hilary Mantel the first woman and the first British author to win it twice. Sir Peter Stothard, chair of the judges … 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

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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.

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Hilary Mantel talks about Anne Boleyn [VIDEO]

Watch Hilary Mantel, author of the Man Booker Prize-winning ‘Wolf Hall’ and its sequel ‘Bring Up The Bodies’, talking about the primary focus of her new novel, Anne Boleyn. By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his … Continue reading