‘Magnificent…It’s one of the greatest ghost stories in the language, but it’s far more than just a ghost story – it’s a novel of desperate truthfulness – a majestic work, truly.’ Philip Pullman ‘Sparkling, sinister and supremely original.’ Sunday Telegraph ‘As black as a tar barrel and very, very funny.’ The Times ‘Laceratingly observant, a masterpiece of wit, heavy with atmosphere. It is also gloriously insolent and slyly funny: full of robust, uncluttered prose and searing moments.' Independent ‘Pins elusive Middle England to the page in all its creepiness: a place blank and disconnected, yet fatally self-absorbed.’ Rachel Cooke, Observer ‘An elegant, atmospheric tale and a nuanced portrait, full of ironies.’ Tatler 'Chilling, creepy and endlessly inventive.' Kate Saunders, The Times ‘Hilary Mantel has done something extraordinary. She has taken the ethereal halfway house between heaven and hell, between the living and the dead, and nailed it on the page.’ Fay Weldon, Guardian ‘Has the kind of gallows humour that makes you laugh out loud…A real page-turner, a darkly humorous take on the enduring effects of childhood trauma.’ Mslexia 'A deep, disturbing, violently amusing and subversive work.’ Daily Telegraph

A novel of suspense and secrets by the author of the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy • Hilary Mantel is one of our most brilliant and distinctive fiction writers. • 'Wolf Hall' has sold 220,000 copies in hardback and trade paperback so far. It won the Man Booker Prize 2009 and was shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. • 'Beyond Black' has sold over 80,000 paperbacks in the UK and was shortlisted for the Orange Prize for Fiction. • Part of a beautiful repackaging of Hilary Mantel's backlist - to coincide with the paperback publication of 'Wolf Hall’. Competition: The;Wolf Hall;Bring up the Bodies;Testaments;Handmaid’s Tale;American Dirt;girl, woman, other;Tidelands;A place of Greater Safety. By;Hilary Mantel;Margaret Atwood;Philippa Gregory;Bill Bryson;Robert Harris;John le Carre;Alison Weir;Kate Atkinson