Hilary Mantel stressed she was concerned with depicting the outer world faithfully but her chief concern was her character’s interior drama. This adaptation shows how much she strayed from that
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The return of Henry VIII’s adviser Thomas Cromwell in a time of political and national turmoil sets up a tense conclusion to Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy.
A Memoir of My Former Self is a celebration of one of Britain’s most beloved and celebrated novelists.
The book shares secrets – Mantel’s own alongside those of the writers, historical figures and places she describes.
Classic books like Jane Eyre took on new meanings while the lengths of others made us aware of our mortality.
A short guide to the Wolf Hall author’s remarkably varied back catalogue.
Historically inaccurate portrayals of Anne Boleyn aren’t new, and artistic license is vital to telling her story.
The Booker Prize has always struggled with inclusivity.
Mantel’s prize-winning novels put imaginary flesh on the skeletal historical record and gives us the complete picture of the Tudor courtier.
The Booker Prize is 50 – and to celebrate it, there’s a mega prize.
The Booker Prize-winning novelist’s Reith lectures explore the complex relationship between historical fact and fiction.
The runaway success of Ali Smith’s How to be Both signals a new and original approach to 21st-century historical fiction.
Costume in the TV adaptation is not only authentic. It also, like the use of dress in contemporary Tudor portraiture, helps tell the story.
In the first episode of BBC historical drama Wolf Hall, based on Hilary Mantel’s novel of the same name, Thomas Cromwell returns home to find his wife and two daughters have all died during the night…
In his biography of Sir Thomas More, Peter Ackroyd audaciously asks us to imagine pre-Reformation London as the street markets of Marrakesh. Cheapside would have been a bustling surge of traders and customers…
The television adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies is already being hailed as possibly the “greatest period drama ever made”. Certainly, much has been made of its attention to historical detail…
Historical fiction is booming. The much-publicised success of Hannah Kent’s Burial Rites, Eleanor Catton’s The Luminaries and Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall is just the tip of the iceberg for a genre that rivals…
The Costa book awards shortlists have been announced and the one thing that dominates people’s first reactions has been the fact the fiction shortlist is made up entirely of women authors. Is the response…
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