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Shardlake on Disney+ review: Arthur Hughes is magnetic in this Tudor murder mystery

Move over Wolf Hall, there’s a new Tudor drama in town

Evening Standard

Shardlake: murder mysteries don’t get more fantastically creepy than this

Set in a spooky Tudor monastery, Arthur Hughes and Sean Bean must solve a fateful crime while all the monks seemingly have secret affairs. It’s fun, knowing TV … I just hope you’ve all done A-level history

The Guardian - UK

Wolf Hall: The Mirror And The Light First-Look Images Released

Get ready for the highly-anticipated sequel, Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light, featuring a stellar cast and a compelling storyline set to captivate audi...

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‘Unambiguous proof’: medieval archbishop revealed as lost English saint

Historian at English Heritage uncovered entry about Thurstan in a service book from Pontefract Priory, which was laid waste during the Reformation

The Guardian - UK

Best detective book series to get lost in gripping mysteries

Ravenous mysteries and mind-boggling motives

Evening Standard

Wolf Hall: Mark Rylance and star-studded cast return for final series, plus Harriet Walter and Timothy Spall

The celebrated actor will be reprising his role as the scheming Thomas Cromwell one last time

Evening Standard

Where to watch Wolf Hall season 1 as the BBC announces season 2 of the intense Tudor drama

Wondering where to watch Wolf Hall? We've got you covered as it's confirmed Mark Rylance will reprise his role as Thomas Cromwell

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BBC Wolf Hall team to reunite for Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror and the Light, final book of Cromwell Trilogy

Series follows 2015 adaptation of first two books in Mantel’s series

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Wolf Hall 2: The Mirror and the Light — release date, cast, plot, trailer and everything we know

Wolf Hall 2: The Mirror and the Light will see Mark Rylance return to play Henry VIII's advisor Thomas Cromwell.

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How to Have Sex's Samuel Bottomley on toxic masculinity: 'Porn is definitely a problem for young men'

The Bafta nominated actor on why his new movie will help a lot of people, making Tyrannosaur at eight and learning from Tim Roth and Jack O'Connell

Evening Standard

A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel's final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell

In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a wooden box. Mantel promised: “There is nothing I won’t say, only what I haven’t said yet.”

The Conversation

The best recent crime and thrillers – review roundup

Everybody Knows by Jordan Harper; The Last Devil to Die by Richard Osman; You’d Look Better as a Ghost by Joanna Wallace; The Winter List by SG MacLean; Tell Me Your Secrets by Mel McGrath

The Guardian - UK

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.

The Independent UK

Thomas Cromwell’s prayer book found in a Cambridge library

Thomas Cromwell’s personal prayer book has been found in a Cambridge library, where it has been hiding in plain sight for centuries. “The Book of Hours”, which features in Hans Holbein’s portrait of the Tudor statesman, was identified by historians who had discovered that both Anne Boleyn and Catherine of…

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Hever Castle to display 16th-century prayer book believed to be Thomas Cromwell’s from Holbein portrait

There are three copies of the 1527 Book of Hours in existence, two of which belonged to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

The Conversation

Raise a glass to your cousin, King Charles III

Millions of people around the world will be watching as Charles is crowned king of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. And it’s fair to say that a huge number of them could claim some degree of kinship with the new monarch as distant cousins at least. It’s…

Evening Standard

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…

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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

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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.

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Shardlake: ITV release date, plot, cast, and more

Shardlake is set at the time of Henry VIII and follows the adventures of lawyer Matthew Shardlake...

The Guardian - UK

Top 10 books about corruption

Authors from Jane Mayer to Michael Lewis show that malfeasance from government and private enterprise is by no means just a foreign affair

The Guardian - UK

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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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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Hilary Mantel: Celebrated author of Wolf Hall trilogy

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

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