An extraordinary work of historical imagination from the double Booker Prize-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy, now a major TV series, this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.

‘You could read this a dozen times and not come to the end of its originality, its moral intelligence, its gargantuan flair’ Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne ‘Superbly readable…an assured and strange masterpiece’ Sunday Telegraph 'One of the best English novels of the 20th century' Diana Athill, The Oldie ‘Hilary Mantel has soaked herself in the history of the period…and a striking picture emerges of the exhilaration, dynamic energy and stark horror of those fearful days’ Daily Telegraph ‘I cannot think of a historical novel as good as this until one goes back to Marguerite Yourcenar’s “Memoirs of Hadrian”, published forty years ago.’ Evening Standard ‘Marvellous…It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Hilary Mantel captures it all’ Time Out ‘Intriguing…She has grasped what made these young revolutionaries – and with them the French Revolution – tick’ Independent ‘Crafty tensions, twists and high drama…a bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style’ Times Literary Supplement ‘An extraordinary and overwhelming novel…immensely detailed and yet fast-moving…she has set herself to capture the excitement and intellectual fervour of the period. She does it admirably…a tour de force’ Scotsman 'Riveting…the book overflows with a natural storyteller's energy' New Yorker ‘Much, much more than a historical novel, this is an addictive study of power, and the price that must be paid for it…a triumph’ Cosmopolitan 'This is a high-class historical blockbuster' Red Magazine ‘Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible…an ambitious, gripping epic’ Vogue

An epic work of historical fiction about the French Revolution, from the Booker Prize-winning and bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy • Hilary Mantel is one of our most brilliant and distinctive fiction writers. • ‘Wolf Hall’ has sold 220,000 copies in hardback 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;Mirror and the Light;Heresy;Fire Court;Crusaders;Templars;Tidelands;A place of Greater Safety;Les Miserables;Pillars of the Earth;Treachery. By;Hilary Mantel;S J;S. J.;Parris;Philippa Gregory;Bill Bryson;Robert Harris;John le Carre;Alison Weir;Dan Jones;Ken Follett;