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A Memoir of my Former Self review: Hilary Mantel was peerless, but this new collection is one for purists

If you would like to read what Hilary Mantel made of Robocop, then I have the book for you. But if you’re looking for a memoir, as you might expect given the title, then you are out of luck. This is a collection of essays, lectures and journalism (Mantel spent…

Evening Standard

The Glutton by AK Blakemore review – a breathtaking tale of huge hunger

A French peasant with an insatiable appetite lives through revolutionary chaos in a vivid, beautifully written historical novel

The Guardian - UK

‘I didn’t think it was possible to be a novelist’: Julian Barnes on literature, loss – and his late friend Martin Amis

The Booker winning author talks about how his most recent work was inspired by Hilary Mantel, and the way the books world has changed since his debut was published more than 40 years ago

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40 best books to read before you die, from Great Expectations to Wolf Hall

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

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Collection of Hilary Mantel’s essays to be published in posthumous memoir

The publication will be marked with three curated events at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Stratford Literary Festival and at the British Library.

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‘Provocative’ new book to showcase four decades of Hilary Mantel’s work

The wide-ranging collection A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing features subjects from her health struggles to Robocop and has been announced a year after the author’s death

The Guardian - UK

The ‘Kate effect’: how the Princess of Wales became the royals’ not-so-secret weapon

Kate has moulded herself to fit the institution and now has the sort of soft power politicians would kill for

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40 best books to read before you die, from Wolf Hall to Wuthering Heights

Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

The Independent UK

Twice Booker-winner Hilary Mantel was writing a 'mashup' of Jane Austen's novels before her sudden death

The news of twice Booker-winning author Hilary Mantel's sudden death due to stroke on September 22, 2022 shocked everyone. And now, in a recent memorial service held for the author at Southwark cathedral in England, her literary agent revealed that Mantel was writing a "mashup" about Jane Austen's classics when…

The Times of India

OPINION - Hilary Mantel showed us how real talent can cut through personal hell

I went to Hilary Mantel’s memorial service at Southwark Cathedral last week. Sir Mark Rylance and Ben Miles, who both played her hero Thomas Cromwell, did readings and there were memories from her friends and family. Two things emerged: Mantel the feminist and Mantel the muse. They are the same…

Evening Standard

Hilary Mantel’s last novel was to have been an Austen mash-up: read an exclusive extract starring Mr Darcy

In the week of the Wolf Hall author’s memorial, her husband and agent talk about the Jane Austen satire she was working on when she died in 2022. Plus: read an exclusive extract, along with her earliest published work

The Guardian - UK

Don’t knock the coronation – it could be up there with It’s a Knockout

Although most of the UK is unenthusiastic, put me down for coronation trivia watch

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel was ‘a treasure of this nation’, celebration of author’s life told

The British writer was best known for the Wolf Hall trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell, which won two Booker prizes.

The Independent UK

Hilary Mantel was working on ‘mashup’ of Jane Austen novels before her death

Wolf Hall trilogy author remembered at memorial service at Southwark cathedral on Thursday

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Hilary Mantel’s prediction about Prince George and the royal family

Late author said in an interview that it was ‘hard to understand the thinking behind the monarchy in the modern world’

Daily Mirror

Paul O'Grady honoured during special Olivier Awards tribute leaving viewers emotional

It wasn't just Paul O'Grady honoured, with tributes paid to Darius Campbell-Danesh, Hilary Mantel, Burt Bacharach, Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Dame Angela Lansbury, Bernard Cribbins and Kay Mellor

The Guardian - UK

Louise Kennedy: ‘I read Wuthering Heights twice and found it demented’

The Irish author on the power of Edna O’Brien, Zola’s lust, and struggling with Emily Brontë

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Hilary Mantel memorial to be held at Southwark Cathedral

The celebration of the double Booker winner’s life will include tributes and readings from her work with a limited number of tickets available for the general public

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Claire Foy on finding her rage: ‘You’ve got to get your anger out, in order to move on’

The Crown confirmed her as acting royalty, but she always struggled with self-doubt. Now, after a storm about her salary, she is determined to express her feelings – even the difficult ones

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Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

The Conversation

The British monarchy has always controlled how much we see of it, but Charles III could change that

The late author Hilary Mantel once wrote of Queen Elizabeth II that she was “a thing that existed to be looked at”. This became even truer in death.

Chronicle Live

Celebrities we lost in 2022 including Robbie Coltrane, Meat Loaf, Olivia Newton-John and June Brown

This year we sadly said goodbye to The Wanted star Tom Parker, BBC Breakfast presenter Bill Turnbull, The Railway Children's Bernard Cribbins, and many more

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel remembered by Ben Miles

6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022The actor, who played Thomas Cromwell in the stage adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, on the writer whose genius was matched by her openness

The Conversation

How the pandemic affected our approach to reading and interpretation of books

During the pandemic, reading took on new meaning. People turned to books for comfort. Some read to confront difficult issues, especially following the murder of George Floyd in 2020. Others used reading as a way to care for their children in locked-down houses.

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‘Taking life advice from John Donne would be disastrous’ – the roof-walking, trapeze-flying Baillie Gifford winner

Katherine Rundell has just become the youngest ever winner of the prestigious literary prize – for a biography of ‘poet of desire’ John Donne. Why is she giving the £50,000 away? Because, she says, no man is an island

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