Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract
The story of a tangled inheritance I began writing Mr Atkinson’s Rum Contract almost ten years ago, after learning that … Continued
The Mirror & the Light: Cultural Impact
The Power of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies In 2009, Hilary Mantel was an author already acclaimed for
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Nothing makes a book more readable than discovering that a world a million miles away – or five hundred years
The Mirror & the Light: Main Themes pt.3
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The Mirror & the Light: Main Themes pt.2
On The Hunt Animals and their natural tendencies, a common feature of sixteenth-century allegory, pepper both novels, both in actual
The Mirror & the Light: Main Themes pt.1
The Fabric of the World One of the many enjoyable aspects of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies is
The Mirror & the Light: The Revolutionary Nature of the Books
There are few figures in British history as universally reviled as Thomas Cromwell. Held responsible for the suppression of the
The Mirror & the Light: Main Characters
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The Mirror & the Light: The Story So Far
Bringing the opulent, brutal Tudor world of Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII to glittering life, Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and
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50 Rose Tower by Oluchi Ezeh
The summer before our family fell apart, a legend started on our estate. I was ten at the time, and