Hilary Mantel

Includes the first two books in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, the record-setting Man Booker prize-winners ?Wolf Hall? and ?Bring Up the Bodies?. ? A Place of Greater Safety? is an epic of Revolutionary France. The darkly comic ?Beyond Black? is a lively tale of a psychic and the impish spirits she summons. ?The Giant, O?Brien? tells the story of the legendary Charles Byrne and the surgeon who wanted his bones. And a family seeks refuge after an unfortunate...

Hilary Mantel is one of Britain?s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday faȧdes. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in ?Comma?; nurses clash in ?Harley Street? over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber...

With this historic win for ?Bring Up the Bodies?, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for ?Wolf Hall? in 2009). By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king?s new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a...

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.

Set in the fictitious village of Fetherhoughton, buried in the northern moorland, Mantel's cleverly absorbing novel centres on the community's relationship with the church, which bears some but not much resemblence to the Roman Catholic Church, c.1956.

Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, the Axon family baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers. Isabel has other problems too: a randy, untrustworthy father and a slackly romantic lover, Colin Sidney.

Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes them to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, the expatriates are hard-drinking money-grubbers and her Muslim neighbours are secretive and watchful.

'Giving Up the Ghost' is novelist Hilary Mantel's autobiography in fiction and non-fiction. It deals with childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family.

A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, narrated by a prestigious cast of actors and notable literary figures connected to Hilary's work. From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, Hilary Mantel had a celebrated career as a novelist. Alongside this, she long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from...