Best-selling author Dame Hilary Mantel left her entire £4million fortune to her childhood sweetheart husband, documents reveal. The novelist died suddenly of a stroke in September, 2022 ...

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.