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A brilliant novelist and critic who understood her craft
Writer who redefined historical fiction was ‘one of the greatest English novelists of this century’
The novelist on her earliest memory, the afterlife and Tertius, ‘the Prince of Cats’
Atmospherically evoked by Hilary Mantel in ‘Wolf Hall’, the domestic world of Henry VIII’s arch-fixer offers an escape from lockdown tedium
The author of the Wolf Hall trilogy on what’s next, doctors and why writing is like fighting
Miranda Green is weighed down by Thomas Cromwell’s impending doom in The Mirror and the Light
Hilary Mantel and Lucy Ellmann supply long-haul listening — just when we need them
The dead are ‘like a backing group’, reflects the novelist in this insightful BBC2 documentary
Simon Schama looks at how the novelist reanimates both Cromwell and his world in the last volume of her trilogy
The Booker-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy has made Thomas Cromwell into a character for our age
Who gave a giant tip? Who had 12 courses? Who admired the ‘brutality’ of Game of Thrones? Have lunch again with Ecclestone, Huppert and Mantel . . .
The writer discusses the Tudors and why Prince Charles would be an ‘interesting’ king
One political heroine is getting a statue near parliament, but we need many more
The arts are accused of leftwing bias but look at popular culture and a different picture emerges
The FT talks to the actor about the challenges of the role in the BBC’s new adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels, and to Hilary Mantel
Horror meets the horrid in this wickedly good collection of short stories
Ben Miles is superb as Thomas Cromwell in this vivid, subtle staging of Hilary Mantel’s novels
Booksellers hope for bumper run to Christmas as new titles are published
We need the equivalent of the stocks to persuade people to get off the net and get on with their work
Mantel v Middleton shows what happens when an intellectual comments on a public subject
The novelist brings a modern sensibility to a pivotal point in history
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