Mantel Pieces Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Mantel Pieces  Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 352
Release: 2020-10-01
Genre: Literary Collections
ISBN: 9780008429980

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A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light

How Shall I Know You

How Shall I Know You
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publsiher: HarperCollins
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2014-08-26
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781443441643

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An unforgettable, unnerving short story about a writer’s life from one of today’s greatest writers—extracted from her upcoming collection, THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER “One summer at the fag-end of the nineties, I had to go out of London to talk to a literary society, of the sort that must have been old-fashioned when the previous century closed. When the day came, I wondered why I’d agreed to it; but yes is easier than no, and of course when you make a promise you think the time will never arrive . . .” “How Shall I Know You?” is as unsettling and hauntingly written as we have come to expect from Hilary Mantel, one of the world’s most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. It invites us into the usually hidden recesses of a writer’s life, into her hotel rooms, handbags, frustrations, desires and darkest imaginings.

Behind the Scenes at the Museum

Behind the Scenes at the Museum
Author: Kate Atkinson
Publsiher: St. Martin's Press
Total Pages: 338
Release: 2013-04-02
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781466842663

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A deeply moving family story of happiness and heartbreak, Behind the Scenes at the Museum is bestselling author Kate Atkinson's award-winning literary debut. National Bestseller Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year Ruby Lennox begins narrating her life at the moment of conception, and from there takes us on a whirlwind tour of the twentieth century as seen through the eyes of an English girl determined to learn about her family and its secrets. Kate Atkinson's first novel is "a multigenerational tale of a spectacularly dysfunctional Yorkshire family and one of the funniest works of fiction to come out of Britain in years" (The New York Times Book Review).

Wolf Hall

Wolf Hall
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publsiher: HarperCollins Canada
Total Pages: 672
Release: 2010-07-01
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9781443402842

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England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. The son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his rise to power. Narrowly escaping personal disaster—the loss of his young family and of Wolsey, his beloved patron—he picks his way deftly through a court where “man is wolf to man.” Pitting himself against parliament, the political establishment and the papacy, he is prepared to reshape England to his own and Henry’s desires. In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. Wolf Hall re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hair’s breadth, where success brings unlimited power, but a single failure means death.

Giving Up the Ghost

Giving Up the Ghost
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publsiher: Henry Holt and Company
Total Pages: 240
Release: 2004-09-01
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9781429900652

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New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me.” In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. But at nineteen, she became ill. Through years of misdiagnosis, she suffered patronizing psychiatric treatment and destructive surgery that left her without hope of children. Beset by pain and sadness, she decided to “write herself into being”—one novel after another. This wry and visceral memoir will certainly bring new converts to Mantel’s dark genius. “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times

Vacant Possession

Vacant Possession
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2010-06-24
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780007354870

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From the Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’, a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved ‘Every Day is Mother’s Day’.

Fludd

Fludd
Author: Hilary Mantel
Publsiher: HarperCollins UK
Total Pages: 32
Release: 2010-05-06
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 9780007354931

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From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light , this is a dark fable of lost faith and awakening love amidst the moors.

As If

As If
Author: Blake Morrison
Publsiher: Granta Books
Total Pages: 260
Release: 1998
Genre: Children
ISBN: 1862070458

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This volume seeks to expose the hollowness of condemnation divorced from understanding in relation to the Bulger murder trial.