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Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.
<p>‘[A] novel that magically creates an illusion of the Age of Enlightenment. <strong>Hilary Mantel puts the stink of the eighteenth century into our nostrils</strong>’<em> Independent</em></p>
<p>‘A novelist of remarkable diversity…She writes about curiosity, companionship, art, love, death and eternity. She writes with wit, compassion and great elegance. <strong>Her books never fail to surprise, nor to delight: in this one she is at her very best</strong> – so far’ <em>Independent on Sunday</em></p>
<p>‘<strong>Mantel can out-write most writers of her generation, male and female</strong>. What she has done here is disturbing, grievous and extraordinary.’ Maggie Gee, <em>Sunday Times</em></p>
<p>'Filled with bizarre happenings, brazen images and characters whose earthiness you can smell.' <em>TES</em></p>
<p>'Hilary Mantel has felt herself into the poetics of history with singular intensity.' <em>New York Review</em></p>
<p>'<strong>Pathos and humour as they are elsewhere in the book are blended to perfection</strong>.' <em>Sunday Telegraph</em></p>
<p>'Simultaneously vigorous and poetic, full of satisfying earthy details.' Sunday Independent (Ireland)</p>
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Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.