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Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel has called for the skeleton of the 18th Century ‘Irish Giant’ currently held by the Royal College of Surgeons to be repatriated after he asked to be buried at sea. Mantel wrote The Giant, O’Brien, a fictionalised account of 8ft 4in Charles Byrne, who suffered from acromegalic gigantism and … Read more
Dame Hilary Mantel is tipped for her third Man Booker Prize as the longlist is revealed Dame Hilary Mantel could win her third Booker Prize for The Mirror and the Light She won the award for Wolf Hall in 2009 and in 2012 for Bring up the Bodies There are 13-names on this year’s longlist, … Read more
Hilary Mantel’s new work The Mirror And The Light is pitted against Booker Prize winner Bernardine Evaristo’s Girl, Woman, Other as the Women’s Prize For Fiction shortlist is revealed The Mirror And The Light concludes Hilary Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell trilogy Girl, Woman, Other won the Booker Prize alongside Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments The announcement of … Read more
The bookcase in my living room appears to reflect a well-read woman with a broad taste in classic and modern literature. The shelves advertise the intelligence of their owner, with Dickens, Orwell and Austen proudly sitting alongside Booker Prize winners. But I have a confession: the books sit under a layer of undisturbed dust, their … Read more
Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel says she’s been ‘ill for most of my life’ and says the endometriosis she has endured since she was 19 caused the break-up of her marriage. The Booker Prize-winning writer, 67, speaking to BBC Radio 5 Live presenter Emma Barnett that the condition hampered her life so much that it caused her to separate … Read more
Meghan Markle ‘was a smiling face in a dull institution’ and ‘too good to be true’ for the monarchy, according to novelist Dame Hilary Mantel. The British Booker Prize-winning author, 67, spoke with Harper’s Bazaar to celebrate the publication of the final installment of her bestselling Tudor trilogy, The Mirror & the Light. Photographed at Hampton Court Palace, the … Read more
British public IS racist towards Meghan Markle says Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel said racism has played a part in criticism aimed at Meghan Markle The author said there is an ‘intense concentration on bodies of royal women’ She compared scrutiny of the Meghan to that faced by royal women … Read more
From Hilary Mantel’s cracking The Mirror & The Light to a funny debut by Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 GMT, 29 February 2020 The Mirror … Read more
The Mirror & the Light By Hilary Mantel Rating: Readers of Hilary Mantel’s bestselling novels of Tudor history, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, have long awaited this third and final instalment. But it wasn’t known when precisely it would arrive until a clever guerrilla advertising campaign last autumn. A single billboard briefly displayed … Read more