Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Bring Up The Bodies chronicles the downfall of Anne Boleyn through the eyes of Thomas Cromwell, chief minister to Henry VIII. Sir Peter Stothard, chairman of the judges, hailed Mantel as 'the greatest English prose writer of modern times'. By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith’s son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes have risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife, for whose sake Henry has broken with Rome and created his own church. But Henry’s actions have forced England into dangerous isolation, and Anne has failed to do what she promised: bear a son to secure the Tudor line. In Bring up the Bodies Hilary Mantel explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history: the destruction of Anne Boleyn. This new novel is an audacious vision of Tudor England that sheds its light on the modern world.

Wolf Hall Trilogy

Bring Up The Bodies

From the double Man Booker Prize-winner, a savagely funny tale that revisits the characters from the much-loved Every Day is Mother’s Day. Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney and Isabel Field. It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled, truths to be faced and vengeance to be wreaked. ‘The macabre and wonderfully funny plot has as many twists and turns as a well-made thriller’ STANDARD

Vacant Possession

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the YearShortlisted for the 2013 Women’s Prize for Fiction‘Simply exceptional…I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it’Daily Mail ‘A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror’Independent on Sunday With this historic win for Bring Up the Bodies, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes. By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king’s new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days. An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists.

The Wolf Hall Trilogy

Bring up the Bodies

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2009Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize 2009Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009Parts one and two of Hilary Mantel’s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, brought together for the first time in audio. In Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy, one of our very best writers brings the opulent world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It is the backdrop to the rise and rise of Thomas Cromwell: lowborn boy, charmer, bully, master of deadly intrigue, and, finally, most powerful of Henry VIII’s coutiers. But the bloody theatre of Cromwell’s ascension will leave no one unscathed. This collection includes expertly adapted versions of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, alongside The World of Wolf Hall, a listening guide which explores the key themes and historical context of the novels, and offers listening group questions to discuss. Read by Dan Stevens, Julian Rhind-Tutt, and Anna Bentinck.

Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ‘I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain’s last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, ‘Royal Bodies’, which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.

Mantel Pieces

Listen to the exciting new rendition of Bring Up the Bodies, read by Ben Miles who was personally cast by the author and played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. With an historic win for Bring Up the Bodies, the second book in the gripping Thomas Cromwell Trilogy, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. Winner of the Costa Book of the Year. By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king’s new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne’s final days. An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. "Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn’t yet read it." DAILY MAIL "A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror." INDEPENDENT ON SUNDAY

Bring Up the Bodies

Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness. The regime is corrupt and harsh, and the streets are not a woman's territory; confined in her flat, she finds her sense of self begin to dissolve. She hears whispers, sounds of distress from the 'empty' flat above her head. As her days empty of certainty and purpose, her life becomes a blank – waiting to be filled by violence and disaster.

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 Listen to the long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Read by Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies, and was personally cast by the author. This edition includes a bonus conversation between Ben Miles and Hilary Mantel. 'If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?' England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. “You’ll frequently hit the rewind button to fully appreciate the many, many perfect passages.” IRISH TIMES “Actor Ben Miles played Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, making him the perfect choice to narrate the remarkable final instalment in the Man Booker Prize-winning trilogy.” VOGUE

The Mirror and the Light

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker PrizeShortlisted for the the Orange PrizeShortlisted for the Costa Novel Award`Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail ‘Our most brilliant English writer’Guardian England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.

Wolf Hall

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2009Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013Shortlisted for the Orange Prize 2009Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009‘A masterpiece’ Guardian ‘It is a book not read, but lived’ Telegraph ‘Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century’ Observer ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. A Guardian Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year

Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light

Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from beloved dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona hides a desperate woman: she knows the terrors the next life holds but must conceal them from her wide-eyed clients. At the same time she is plagued by spirits from her own past, who infiltrate her body and home, becoming stronger and nastier the more she resists…

Beyond Black

Soon to be a major TV series Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2020 Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2020 The Sunday Times bestselling sequel to Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the stunning conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall trilogy. ‘If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?’ England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. A Guardian Book of the Year • A Times Book of the Year • A Daily Telegraph Book of the Year • A Sunday Times Book of the Year • A New Statesman Book of the Year • A Spectator Book of the Year Sunday Times Bestseller (08/03/2020)

The Mirror and the Light: An Adaptation in 30 Minute Episodes

A tour-de-force of historical imagination, this is the story of three young men at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic, debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent, terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming, handsome, but erratic and untrustworthy. As these key figures of the French Revolution taste the addictive delights of power, they must also come to face the horror that follows.

A Place of Greater Safety

Listen to the exciting new rendition of Wolf Hall, read by Ben Miles who was personally cast by the author and played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. The winner of the Man Booker Prize and captivating first book in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Winner of the Man Booker Prize. Shortlisted for the Orange Prize. Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award. England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage. "Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good." DAILY MAIL "Our most brilliant English writer." GUARDIAN Shortlisted for the Golden Man Booker Prize.

England, 1530 tal. Kung Henrik VIII kan bara tänka på en sak, han måste ha en son. Hans drottning kunde bara skänka honom en dotter, nu vill han skiljas men måste få påvens godkännande. Han skyr inga medel, det gör heller inte Thomas Cromwell, denna romans märkliga hjälte och kungens handgångne man. Brittiska Hilary Mantel har sedan 1985 skrivit tolv böcker men fick 2009 sitt stora genombrott med Wolf Hall. Och vilket genombrott! Den historiska romanen belönades med prestigefyllda Man Booker Prize och flera andra stora utmärkelser. Tidningarna utnämnde den till årets bästa roman, Englands största bokhandelskedja Waterstone's korade Hilary Mantel till årets författare och nätbokhandeln Amazon utsåg Wolf Hall till en av årets tre bästa böcker. Romanen är också den Man Booker Prize vinnare som sålt bäst genom tiderna.

A brilliant collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday façades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in ‘Comma’; nurses clash in ‘Harley Street’ over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting game. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit. Displaying all of Mantel’s unmistakable style and wit, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Full of dry wit, compassionate characterisations and cutting insight, Fludd is a brilliant gem of a book, and one of Hilary Mantel's most original works. Fetherhoughton is a dreary town in 1950s northern England. Father Angwin has lost his faith. Sister Philomena strains against convent life. The inhabitants of the town go about their lives in a haze. Then a stranger appears, bringing with him the hint of something new. But who is Fludd? An angel come to shake the dwellers from their stupor, or is he the devil himself, a wanderer of the darkest places in the human heart?

Fludd

Charles O’Brien, Irish bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies’ corpses by the inch. Where is a man as unique as The Giant to hide his bones when he is yet alive?

The Giant, O'Brien

This is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, Giving Up the Ghosts is a wry, shocking and beautifully-written memoir of childhood, ghosts (real and metaphorical), illness and family. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect left her childless, and how the ghosts of the unborn have come to haunt her life as a writer.

Giving Up the Ghost

Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. But the constant flood of 'good souls and sad cases' welcomed into their home hides the growing crises in their own family. From the violent townships of South Africa to the windswept countryside of Norfolk, this is an epic yet subtle family saga about what happens when trust is broken...

A Change of Climate

Two of Hilary Mantel's finest novels, adapted for BBC Radio 4 - plus an exclusive short story One of the 21st century's most celebrated authors, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in her phenomenally successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third novel in the series, 2020's The Mirror and the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. This collection includes three of her best works of contemporary fiction, ranging from the Gothic to the blackly comic. Fludd - Hilary Mantel reads her own abridged novel, set in the dour northern mill town of Fetherhoughton in the 1950s. Presiding over the community are Father Angwin, a Catholic priest who has lost his faith in God (but still believes in the Devil) and Mother Perpetua, the head of the local convent. Then, one day, the mysterious Fludd appears - and miracles begin to happen.... Winner of the 1989 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, this is a magically inventive tale of faith, alchemy and transformation. Beyond Black - Starring Alison Steadman, this dramatisation of Hilary Mantel's witty, sinister novel introduces us to Alison Hart, an awkward, obese medium who spends her life touring suburban London's psychic fairs with her efficient but heartless assistant, Colette. Aided by her disgusting spirit guide Morris, she passes on reassuring messages from the other side - but offstage, she is haunted by her own malevolent ghosts. To banish them, she must confront the painful truth about her troubled past.... 'In a Right State' - A homeless, lonely old lady packs all her possessions into two faint-striped, shapeless bags and takes herself off to A & E. Sitting in the waiting room, she gives us her wry observations on the other 'habitués' - while sharing her own unlikely memories and the odd bad joke. Inspired by Alan Bennett's diaries, this beautifully drawn, witty and poignant tale was shortlisted for the BBC National Short Story award, and is read by Miriam Margolyes. Text copyright © Hilary Mantel 1989 (Fludd), 2005 (Beyond Black), 2016 ('In a Right State') All rights reserved Cast and credits Written by Hilary Mantel Fludd Abridged and read by Hilary Mantel Produced by Jane Robinson First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 3-14 June 1991 Beyond Black Alison - Alison Steadman Colette - Rosie Cavaliero Morris - Bill Wallis Gavin - Mark Meadows Natasha/Renee/Mandy- Adrienne O'Sullivan Emmie - Katharine Rogers Keith/Aitkenside - Simon Armstrong Mrs McGibbet/Maureen - Sheila Hannon Mrs Etchells - June Barrie Silvana - Jacqueline Tong Mart - Malcolm Hamilton Dramatised by Caroline Harrington. Directed by Sara Davies. First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 1-12 March 2010 'In a Right State' Read by Miriam Margolyes Produced by Julian Wilkinson First broadcast BBC Radio 4, 19 September 2016 © 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd. (P) 2023 BBC Studios Distribution Ltd

Hilary Mantel: Beyond Black and more

The collection begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In Third Floor Rising, she watches, dazzled, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity. With a deceptively light touch, Mantel locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood

Learning to Talk

Evelyn and Muriel Axon, mother and daughter, lead a haunted existence. Objects of horror to their neighbours, they evade or terrorise any social worker who crosses their path. Inside their house, they pursue a covert persecution of each other, shrinking from the unseen occupants of their spare room. But change is in the air… Every Day is Mother's Day is a merciless comedy of colliding lives: of sex, death, madness, adultery and the social services.

Every Day is Mother's Day

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion, suffering and courage.

It is London, 1970. Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the north. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, she begins her experiments in life and love. But the year turns. The mini-skirt falls out of style and an era of concealment begins. Carmel's world darkens, and tragedy waits in the wings.

An Experiment in Love

A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel's life in her own dazzling words, narrated by a prestigious cast of actors and notable literary figures connected to Hilary’s work. From her unique childhood to her all-consuming fascination with Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall Trilogy, Hilary Mantel had a celebrated career as a novelist. Alongside this, she long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. This strand of Hilary’s writing was an integral part of how she thought of herself. 'Ink is a generative fluid,' she explains. 'If you don't mean your words to breed consequences, don't write at all.' A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Mantel's subjects are wide-ranging. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life flopping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels - revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England - and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V. S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is a selection of her film reviews - from When Harry Met Sally to RoboCop - and, published for the first time, her stunning Reith Lectures, which explore the process of art bringing history and the dead back to life. Compelling, often very funny, always luminous, it is essential listening from one of our greatest writers. Voiced by Ben Miles, Lydia Leonard and Aurora Dawson-Hunte; all of whom have featured in stage adaptions of Hilary’s work. With contributions from actress Jane Wymark, narrator of Hilary’s memoir Giving up the Ghost. Readings from authors Anne Enright; the first Laureate for Irish Fiction and winner of the 2007 Booker Prize, and Sarah Waters; British Book Award Author of the Year and two-time Booker Prize nominee. Joining the cast are Hilary’s long-time literary agent Bill Hamilton and her publisher for nearly twenty years, Nicholas Pearson. 'A smart, deft, meticulous, thoughtful writer, with such a grasp of the dark and spidery corners of human nature' - Margaret Atwood

A Memoir of My Former Self

Cromwell-sarjan ihailijoiden odotus palkitaan: trilogian kolmas osa ilmestyy kesällä! Englanti, toukokuu 1536. Thomas Cromwell, köyhän sepän poika, on päässyt pitkälle. Henrik VIII:n tärkeimpänä avustajana hän on kartuttanut omaisuuttaan ja valtaansa. Kuningas on jäänyt kaksi kertaa leskeksi. Kolmas vaimo Jane Seymour antaa kuninkaalle jakamattoman huomionsa, ja kruununperijäprinssiä odotetaan kuumeisesti. Silloinkin, kun vainoharhainen kuningas ilmoittaa haluavansa olla yksin, hän kutsuu Cromwellin luokseen väittelemään kanssaan tai vain heittämään noppaa. Lordi Cromwellin maailmassa on nyt kolmenlaisia ihmisiä: niitä, jotka käyttävät hänen oikeaa arvonimeään, hännystelijöitä ja kaunankantajia. Maailmassa on levottomuuksia, mutta maan hallinnon on jatkuttava. Mutta pystyykö kokonainen kansakunta tai yksi ihminen luomaan nahkansa uudestaan?

Kuningashuone

Kirjan nimi viittaa lentävään lauseeseen ”Ihminen on ihmiselle susi”. Tarina sijoittuu 1500-luvun alkuun ja kertoo hämmästyttävän tarinan Thomas Cromwellin, köyhän ja juopon sepän pojan, noususta valtaan ja kuninkaan tärkeimmäksi neuvonantajaksi Henrik VIII:n hovissa. Hilary Mantel avaa meille myös toisenlaisen kuvan. Järisyttävän inhimillisen. Hän kertoo tuon 1500-luvulla eläneen ihmisen tarinan modernin kirjallisuuden keinoin. Kerronta on tiivistä, dramaattista, täsmällistä ja tarkkaa.

Susipalatsi

Syytettyjen sali tutkii Englannin kuninkaan toisen vaimon, Anne Boleynin, traagista ja veristä kohtaloa. Mantel kirjoittaa noista hurjista vuosista todellisen mestarin tavoin. Tuoden lähelle hovin julmat kamppailut vallasta. Ymmärtäen jokaista. Näyttäen miten moderni maailma sai syntynsä.Syytettyjen sali on jatkoa Mantelin maailmanmenestykseen nousseelle kirjalle Susipalatsi (Teos, 2011). Se nousi ilmestyttään heti bestsellertilastojen kärkeen kriitikkojen suitsutuksen myötä.

Syytettyjen sali

Thomas Cromwell ist dank seiner Unterstützung für Anne Boleyn zum unangefochtenen Strippenzieher am Hofe Heinrichs VIII. aufgestiegen. Doch als auch Anne dem König keinen Thronfolger schenken kann, und der König sich in die zurückhaltende Jane Seymour verliebt, ändert Cromwell seine Taktik. Es geht um das Wohl Englands - und um die eigene Karriere.

Falken

England 1520: Henry VIII. ist noch immer ohne männlichen Thronfolger, was für ihn eine persönliche wie politische Katastrophe ist. Ohne einen Erben droht dem Königreich ein verheerender Bürgerkrieg. Henry VIII. will daher seine Ehe mit Katharina von Aragón annullieren lassen und seine Geliebte Anne Boleyn heiraten. Das sorgt für heftigen Widerstand in Rom und in Europa. In dieser heiklen Situation sind nun die Fähigkeiten Thomas Cromwells gefragt. Mit Bestechung, Einschüchterung und Charme steigt er zum wichtigen Vertrauten Henrys auf. Der Emporkömmling sieht sich bald von Feinden umgeben wie von einem Rudel Wölfe.

Thomas Cromwell

Wölfe

Wenn du bei einer Hinrichtung nicht die Wahrheit sagen kannst, wann wirst du sie jemals sagen können? England 1536: Mit der Hinrichtung Anne Boleyns ist Thomas Cromwell mehr denn je der engste Vertraute Henrys VIII. Loyal gegenüber dem König, gerissen im Umgang mit Verbündeten, gnadenlos gegen Feinde triumphiert der Mann aus einfachen Verhältnissen über alle. Doch was wird geschehen, wenn seine Feinde erstarken und sie den König auf ihre Seite ziehen?

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Spiegel und Licht (Teil 2 von 3)

Spiegel und Licht (Teil 1 von 3)

Broderskap är den tredje och avslutande delen av Mantels revolutionsroman, efter de inledande Frihet och Jämlikhet. Vi får följa hennes tre huvudpersoner Robespierre, Danton och Desmoulins fram till schavotten och Dantons berömda ord: Visa upp mitt huvud for folket. Det tål att tittas på. Efter den franska revolutionen var världen en annan, men Mantel intresserar sig framför allt för de unga människor som ledde den. Vilka var de? Hur tänkte de? Hur levde de? Hilary Mantel skrev romanen om den franska revolutionen som mycket ung, men fick sitt enorma genombrott i hemlandet och världen med romanerna om Thomas Cromwell och Henrik VIII. På svenska finns också hennes självbiografi Skuggan av ett liv och novellsamlingen Mordet på Margaret Thatcher. Frihet och Jämlikhet ges samtidigt med Broderskap ut i pocket.

Revolutionen

Broderskap

Jämlikhet, del 2 av Hilary Mantels stora revolutionsroman, börjar på revolutionens andra dag, 15 juli 1789. Bastiljen är stormad Danton, Robespierre och Demoulins träder fram på allvar. Tre år av maktkamp, tre år av agitation, tre år av uppladdning inför den stora terrorn. Frankrike skakar och en ny ordning bryter fram i Europa. Mantel skildrar revolutionen och revolutionärerna i skoningslös närbild.

Jämlikhet

I För in de döda, den andra delen i den trilogi som inleddes med succén Wolf Hall, skildrar Hilary Mantel en av de mest mytomspunna och skrämmande episoderna i den engelska historien: Anne Boleyns undergång. Hilary Mantel, som har en lång rad uppmärksammade romaner bakom sig sen debuten 1985, har tilldelats Englands mest prestigefyllda pris, Man Booker, för både Wolf Hall och För in de döda. Det är unikt i prisets historia.

För in de döda

Hilary Mantel, känd som skildrare av Henrik VIII och hans hov, är tillbaka med en samling samtida berättelser. Med giftig penna och sylvass blick avtäcker hon det liv vi lever. Äktenskap, klass, familj och sex är ämnen som återkommer. Vi får följa Hilary i en klaustrofobisk lägenhet i ett arab­land under arbetet med första romanen, ett par i en taxi som krockar med något under färden, en städerska i ett av Londons mest fashionabla områden. Det är oväntat, ibland chockerande. I elva berättelser, varav en är alldeles nyskriven till den brittiska pocketutgåvan, visar Hilary Mantel åter att hon är en av världens främsta författare.

Mordet på Margaret Thatcher

Jag valde att skriva om Franska revolutionen, eftersom jag tyckte att det var det mest överraskande och intressanta som hänt i hela världshistorien. Hilary Mantel var bara 22 år när hon tog sig an detta storslagna ämne för sin stora roman Frihet, Jämlikhet och Broderskap, vars första del nu kommer ut på svenska. Hon skrev den i en tid när vänsterrörelsen fyllde gatorna i hela Europa, men hon valde sitt alldeles egna perspektiv: vilka var de, egentligen, de här franska revolutionärerna. Hemma hos sig? Med sina fruar och barn? Hilary Mantel har sedan dess vunnit världsberömmelse med sina romaner om Thomas Cromwell och Henrik VIII. Sin skarpa blick för historien hade hon redan från början, det visar denna mäktiga romansvit.

Frihet

Vem är egentligen Hilary Mantel? Här skildrar hon sin uppväxt i en katolsk familj med en ganska kaotisk familje­situation. Som ung juridik­student i London får hon problem med sin hälsa och tyvärr också med den okänsliga läkarveten­skapen som prop­par henne full med psyko­farmaka. Den här sjuk­domen, så småningom diagno­stiserad som endometrios, en svår kvinnosjukdom, kommer att prägla hennes liv långt fram i livet. Den kanske rentav gjorde henne till för­fattare. Skuggan av ett liv handlar också om den dotter hon aldrig fick, den tro hon förlorade redan som barn och om de första årtiondena som författare. Det är lika delar personlig historia och kvinnohistoria. "Man behöver inte vara ett Cromwell-fan för att ryckas med. Det här är en memoarbok som griper tag oavsett om man på förhand intresserar sig för dess huvudperson eller ej. Hilary Mantel vet som bekant hur man berättar en historia och får gestaltningen av sitt liv att framstå som ärlig och oputsad. Det känns snabbt oviktigt om det är sant eller ej. Det är fin läsning. Det räcker." SvD "Den som är bekant med Mantels klipska elegans blir inte förvånad över att hon gör något alldeles speciellt även av denna ganska tunna minnesbok." BT "en suverän bok, och jag förstår varför den tillhör Mantels mest kända i hemlandet. Inte för att jag får känna just Hilary Mantel, utan för att Mantel redan här gör det som gör Cromwellböckerna så bra: hon låter mig på ett helt igenom trovärdigt och uppslukande vis ta del av en annan människas verklighet." Sydsvenskan Suget finns där från första stund, som en osynlig hand som tar tag i en och drar en inåt, neråt så att man strax simmar bland bokstäver och semikolon och aldrig någonsin vill röra sig mot ytan igen. I Mantels språk och värld vill jag vara. Bland de tvära kasten mellan galghumor och tårprickig sorg, bland de ofödda och dödas skuggor i knirriga trappor ja till och med hos de bistert blängande nunnorna i skolan. Kulturnytt, SR

Skuggan av ett liv

Följ med till den andra sidan. Det spökar på sidorna i Granta #4. Från krigets Irak, som hemsöker marinsoldaten i Phil Klays novell, till Sara Stridsbergs krisdrabbade amerikanska spökstad, Ulrika Kärnborgs kollapsade paraguayanska utopi och Johanne Lykke Holms kusliga seans i centrala Köpenhamn. Aase Berg och Fredrik Sjöberg gör upp med tro och vidskeplighet, Karin Tidbeck tar strid för hårt drivna spökskrivare och Janine di Giovanni möts av de döda när hon återvänder till Sarajevo nästan tjugo år efter belägringen. Svenska Granta är del av ett internationellt nätverk med engelskspråkiga Granta som nav. Tidskriften grundades av studenter i Cambridge i slutet av 1800-talet. År 1979 fick den sin nuvarande form som en arena för nyskriven skönlitteratur och litterära reportage. I dag finns Grantaredaktioner i ett tiotal länder världen över, från Kina till Brasilien.

Granta - arena för ny litteratur

Granta 4. Spöken

"Hilary Mantel har förnyat den historiska romanen på ett storartat vis." SVT Kulturnyheterna "Läs, lär och njut!" Aftonbladet "Ingen annan författare skriver med så många pixlar som hon." Dagens Nyheter "Mästerligt, Mantel! Jesper Högströms översättning är exakt och generös jag frestas att använda ordet vacker" Sydsvenskan Med mod, list och brutalitet har Thomas Crom­well klättrat från samhällets bottenskikt till en plats som Henrik VIII:s högra hand. Nu, 1536, har han administrerat avrättningen av kungens andra hustru, Anne Boleyn, något som väckte ont blod bland många av Englands mäktiga. Samtidigt hopar sig tvivlen. Hur länge kan framgången bestå för en man av folket som saknar en egen armé? Finns det en gräns för hur långt man kan gå i maktens namn? Spegeln och ljuset är en storartad avslutning på en romantrilogi som gjort succé världen över, och som ofta beskrivs som en av de främsta skildringar av makt och människor som skrivits i modern tid. "Imponerande" Skånska Dagbladet "Jag kommer att sakna Cromwell och det är tack vare ljuset och rymden i Mantels text och hennes förmåga att skriva fram en värld där dåtid, nutid och framtid rör sig sömlöst i och kring varandra." SR Kulturnytt

Spegeln och ljuset

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