In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man, Thomas Cromwell, dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.
Alison Hart is a psychic who is tormented by her spirit guide, a nasty, clownish little creature named Morris who is visible only to Alison. Her life is enlivened, however, by her assistant, Colette, a divorcée who's been through the mill and who now manages the money Al earns from her career as a successful but mostly bogus psychic. Together, the ...
Mantel's three protagonists--Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins--were important figures in the French Revolution. Mantel brings them to life and tells the stories of their relationships with each other as well as with their wives, families, supporters, and enemies. This novel, Mantel's first American publication, was widely acclaimed as a highly ...
Novelist Hilary Mantel writes about her life in terms of the ghosts who have entered it, beginning with a terrifying experience when she was a child and ending with the cottage in Norfolk haunted by the ghost of her stepfather. In addition to ghosts, her life has been populated with much more: eccentric relatives, incompetent doctors, faithless ...
Frances Shore, a feminist and a liberal, tries to be tolerant of the change in values and customs she experiences when she goes with her husband to a job in Saudi Arabia. But she becomes increasingly appalled by the real evil that she witnesses.
In this 1989 comic novel, a despairing, faithless priest in a small English town encounters a man named Fludd, a bizarrely redemptive figure who appears on his doorstep and mysteriously improves the lives of not only Father Angwin but a young Irish nun, Agnes his housekeeper, and--eventually--the entire town. But Fludd remains an enigmatic figure ...
Follows on from "A Change of Climate". Set over a period of six months at the end of 1970, it follows three girls from school in the north (near Manchester) to a student hostel at London University. The book attempts to capture the spirit of the times.
Mantel's novel, set in the 18th century, is about a monstrously tall man who leaves his native Ireland for an English freak show, and the surgeon who is fascinated by him. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
A primly moral and idealistic missionary couple, Ralph and Anna Eldred, gets posted to Africa, and finds that doing good isn't as easy as it seems, and that evil is sometimes a real and palpable presence. Confronted by corruption, brutality, and violence that touches them personally, they return home in defeat, but find that the events of their ...
Evelyn Axon is an aging medium by trade, living with her possibly retarded (and now pregnant) daughter, Muriel, in a filthy, rubbish-filled house. Isabel Field, a social worker, tries to help, but has her own problems with her married lover, Colin, who is stuck in a predictably stale marriage. When Isabel does finally intervene in Evelyn's life, ...
Mantel's novel, set in the 18th century, is about a monstrously tall man who leaves his native Ireland for an English freak show, and the surgeon who is fascinated by him. A New York Times Notable Book for 1998.
Reinvigorated and redesigned, "Granta" has a new editor and a new Web site. But it's not all change: we will still continue to publish the world's finest writers of fiction, memoir, and reportage, in an elegant and collectable paperback book. In "Granta 101," there is original work from Robert Macfarlane, reporting from a blitzed Beijing ahead of ...
Paris, 1789. Frente a las panaderias se forman largas colas de gente hambrienta, las calles estan atestadas de vagabundos armados y practicamente todos los dias estalla una pequena revuelta. En la orilla izquierda del Sena, un joven y desconocido abogado llamado Georges-Jacques Danton intenta labrarse un porvenir. Es un hombre energico y se ha ...
In Mantel's blackly humorous semi-thriller, Muriel Axon has lived for ten years in the mental hospital where she was sent when she killed her mother, and over the years she has become increasingly hostile toward her keepers and bent on revenge. The novel centers on her grisly attempts to even the score at last. A sequel to Hilary Mantel's 1985 ...
In the wake of Hilary Mantel's captivating memoir, GIVING UP THE GHOST, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Published to coincide with their dramatisation on Radio 4's Woman's Hour. This sharp, funny collection of loosely autobiographical stories begins in the nineteen ...
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