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 ...

The revelation emerged in a recently discovered manuscript written by Giovanni Portinari – an Italian who appears as a minor character in Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall trilogy about Henry VIII and ...

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.

Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel has questioned the reverence of what she terms the Princess Diana “myth”, in a caustic article ahead of the 20 th anniversary of the royal’s sudden death in a ...