Dame Hilary Mantel (1952-2022) was one of Britain’s most acclaimed novelists. She won the Booker Prize twice for her novels set in Tudor England: Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies. In the 2017 ...

Though the library in the village where she grew up was poorly stocked, Hilary read anything she could find, including books by Enid Blyton, Charles Dickens, Robert Louis Stevenson and the Brontës.

Mantel has called the book "the greatest challenge of her writing life" Reviewers have hailed Hilary Mantel's finale to her Thomas Cromwell trilogy as "magnificent" and "a masterpiece" ahead of ...