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HISTORICAL FACTS: 4 - The Untold Story

What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

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Judi Dench is right about The Crown: the truth counts. But it’s not everything

The actress suggested that the drama should carry a health warning about its imperfect connection to reality

The Guardian - UK

Queen Consort Camilla to award Booker Prize 2022

The winner of the prestigious Booker Prize 2022 will be announced in the wee-hours of October 18, 2022, as per the Indian Standard Time. And ahead of the award ceremony, news is that Britain's Queen Consort, Camilla will present this year's Booker Prize to the winner.

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Letters: the Russian people can’t throw off their tsarist yoke

Putin’s position may be weak but his citizens won’t push back against him as they have no democratic tradition

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel: Celebrated author of Wolf Hall trilogy

Novelist was the first British writer – and the first woman – to win the Booker Prize twice

The Independent UK

A new series immerses us in Russia’s 90s trauma – and the human cost of economic shock

Adam Curtis’s BBC project, TraumaZone, show us extraordinary events though the eyes of ordinary people, and how ideologues betrayed them, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde

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‘When is it OK to start blowing things up?’ Mark Rylance on families, Hilary Mantel and climate disaster

The actor discusses his new drama at the London film festival, being starstruck by Meryl Streep – and the best way to take environmental action

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A nurse, a rogue, a Pharoah and a space mission – take the Thursday quiz

Fifteen questions on general knowledge and topical trivia plus a few jokes every Thursday – how will you fare?

The Guardian - UK

We must keep the rituals that bind us – not blind us

Letters: Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the mysticism of royalty, and how pageantry is designed to engineer consent, even awe, for an unequal system

The Guardian - UK

If we’re clever we can make public services work with less money

“Never let a good crisis go to waste.” That’s what I used to say to my team when we tried to get my company Second Home through the hellish global pandemic.

Evening Standard

Hilary Mantel wrote me kind notes that I felt deliriously teased by

I met Hilary Mantel in 2013 in Clapham. She was working with the Royal Shakespeare Company to turn Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies into plays.

Evening Standard

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

Author said in an interview last year that it was ‘hard to understand the thinking behind the monarchy in the modern world’

The Independent UK

Hilary Mantel knew how corrosive deference to monarchy can be – and why we must resist

Let us mark this year of royal death and accession by challenging the notion that a man with a crown is more important than everyone else, says Guardian columnist Nesrine Malik

The Guardian - UK

The remarkable generosity of Hilary Mantel will not be forgotten

Letters: Lucie Bea Dutton on the messages of encouragement the writer gave her, and another author on the blurb quotation she provided for a book

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The New Daily

Hilary Mantel was one of the great voices of historical fiction, and so much more

The shining stream of writing from Hilary Mantel has come to an end. But we are left with a rich body of writing to relish and revisit.

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Catherine, Princess of Wales, follows in footsteps of mother-in-law Diana as she takes on a title with baggage

There hasn't been a Princess of Wales since Diana's death in a car crash in 1997 and Catherine would be well aware of the significance it holds — for the family, and the British public.

The Guardian - UK

I’ll always treasure my last meeting with Hilary Mantel

A Guardian interview earlier this month with the late author of the Wolf Hall trilogy was one to be forever grateful for, says its writer

The Guardian - UK

Dame Hilary Mantel obituary

Double Booker prize-winning author best known for her Wolf Hall trilogy based on the life of Thomas Cromwell

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The Conversation

Hilary Mantel was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more

Dame Hilary Mantel was a writer of immense skill and originality, and her death represents an incalculable loss to British literature. She will be chiefly remembered for her trilogy on the life of the Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell.

Daily Mirror

Author Hilary Mantel predicted William would be last King with George never taking throne

Dame Hilary Mantel suggested Prince George would never be king and also had other controversial opinions on the monarchy which she reckoned did not have a future

The Guardian - UK

The Guardian view on Hilary Mantel: a glorious original

Editorial: The author of Wolf Hall will take her own place in history as one of the century’s greatest writers

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel revealed the magic and metaphor of life. I will miss her deeply

An encounter with the writer heightened the senses; her shimmering perceptiveness always left its mark, says Guardian columnist Charlotte Higgins

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‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel dies at 70

Celebrated British author Hilary Mantel died Thursday at age 70, her agent and publisher said in a joint statement Friday.

The Guardian - UK

Hilary Mantel: her 10 greatest books

Though she was best known for her Wolf Hall triology, the late author’s sparkling oeuvre encompassed essays and memoir as well as novels

The Guardian - UK

How Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy turned Thomas Cromwell from villain to hero

The Booker winner brought fierce intellectual rigour to her reimagining of Henry VIII and Ann Boleyn’s story

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