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Hilary Mary Mantel(born 6 July 1952), is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards. In 2009, she won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall.
Available Books by Hilary Mantel
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Bring Up The Bodies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007315109
RRP: $19.99
With this historic win for BRING UP THE BODIES, Hilary Mantel becomes the first British author and the first woman to be awarded two Man Booker Prizes (her first was for WOLF HALL in 2009).
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king's new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Hen...
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Place Of Greater Safety
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007250554
RRP: $19.99
An extraordinary, epic novel set during the French Revolution, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.
A spell-binding, epic novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists -- Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix...
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Bring Up The Bodies
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780007315093
RRP: $39.99
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Bring Up The Bodies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007353583
RRP: $32.99
'My boy Thomas, give him a dirty look and he'll gouge your eye out. Trip him, and he'll cut off your leg,' says Walter Cromwell in the year 1500. 'But if you don't cut across him he's a very gentleman. And he'll stand anyone a drink.'
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell, the blacksmith's son, is far from his humble origins. Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes ha...
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Wolf Hall
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007230204
RRP: $19.99
Go backstage during the most dramatic period in English history: the reign of Henry VIII.
England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.
Cromwell is a wholly ori...
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Vacant Possession
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841153407
RRP: $22.95
Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic. It is ten years since her last tangle with them, but for Muriel this is not time enough. There are still scores to be settled and truths to be faced -- not to mention a certain amount of vengeance to be wreaked.
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Every Day Is Mother's Day
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781841153391
RRP: $24.99
Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, the Axon family baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers. Isabel has other problems too: a randy, untrustworthy father and a slackly romantic lover, Colin Sidney, history teacher to unresponsive yobs and father of a parcel of horrible children. With all this to worry about, how ...
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Beyond Black
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007157761
RRP: $24.99
Alison is a medium. She hears voices from the other side. But the messages are sometimes too dark to pass on so she tells her clients drawn from the outer reaches of London what they want to hear. Alison is 'a girl of unfeasible size, with plump creamy shoulders, rounded calves, thighs and hips that overflow her chair'. But put some make-up on her beige features and she glows. Colette,...
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Giant, O'Brien
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781857028867
RRP: $24.99
Charles O'Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England? The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. A motley court surrounds ...
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Bring Up the Bodies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781250024176
RRP: $18.95
A sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. Reprint. 200,000 first printing....
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Bring Up the Bodies
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780805090031
RRP: $32.95
Depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell as Anne and her powerful family fight back while she is on trial for adultery and treason....
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Angel
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781590174975
RRP: $18.95
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Every Day Is Mother's Day
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312668037
RRP: $16.95
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Vacant Possession
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312668044
RRP: $16.95
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Wolf Hall
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312429980
RRP: $18.95
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price....
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Wolf Hall
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780805080681
RRP: $37.95
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome and many of his people, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. By the Hawthornden Prize-winning author of Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. 40,000 first printing....
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An Experiment in Love
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312426873
RRP: $16.95
A girl's climb up the social ladder in 1960s England. She is Carmel McBain from Lancashire, whose low-class mother pumps her with ambition. The novel follows Carmel through a convent school to university, describing her ups and downs integrating in her new milieu, and the price she pays for it. By the author of A Place of Greater Safety....
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The Giant, O'brien
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312426880
RRP: $17.95
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A Place of Greater Safety
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312426392
RRP: $21.95
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Beyond Black
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312426057
RRP: $18.95
Trouble spirals out of control for a psychic and her personal assistant when they take up with a spirit guide and his drowned therapist after moving to a suburban wasteland. By the author of A Change of Climate. Reprint. 25,000 first printing....
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Giving Up the Ghost
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312423629
RRP: $18.95
An award-winning author and reviewer describes her tomboy childhood, challenging Catholic school education, broken family life, marriage, struggle with chronic illness that rendered her unable to have children, and literary career. Reprint. 10,000 first printing....
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A Change of Climate
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312422882
RRP: $18.95
When Ralph, Anna Eldred's husband of thirty years, is unfaithful, it triggers memories of a bad experience they had together as young missionaries in South Africa. Reprint....
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Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780312422899
RRP: $17.95
When Frances Shore joins her engineer husband in Saudia Arabia, she is troubled by culture shock, boredom, and the sound of sobs coming from the apartment above, although her neighbors say it is all in her imagination. Reprint....
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The Wooden Shepherdess
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780940322301
RRP: $17.95
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Bring Up the Bodies
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410450203
RRP: $52.95
A sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. (historical fiction)....
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Bring Up the Bodies
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594136191
RRP: $20.95
A sequel to the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall depicts the downfall of Anne Boleyn at the hands of Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell. (historical fiction)...
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Wolf Hall
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410450159
RRP: $52.95
Assuming the power recently lost by the disgraced Cardinal Wolsey, Thomas Cromwell counsels a mercurial Henry VIII on the latter's efforts to marry Anne Boleyn against the wishes of Rome and many of his people, a successful endeavor that comes with a dangerous price. (historical fiction)....
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Wolf Hall
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594136139
RRP: $20.95
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An Experiment In Love
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140243758
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Beyond Black
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780007157754
The much anticipated novel from the critically acclaimed author of 'Giving Up The Ghost' and 'A Place Of Greater Safety'.
There's something nasty at the heart of Britain. The earth is poisoned: radioactive waste is washing into the water supply, and Japanese knotweed is choking the grasslands. Ghastly housing estates are proliferating across the Home Counties and terrorists a...
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Beyond Black
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780007207312
The much-anticipated novel from the critically acclaimed author of 'Giving Up The Ghost' and 'A Place Of Greater Safety'.
There's something nasty at the heart of Britain. The earth is poisoned: radioactive waste is washing into the water supply, and Japanese knotweed is choking the grasslands. Ghastly housing estates are proliferating across the Home Counties, and terroris...
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Beyond Black
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007268375
Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat eyed, flint hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.'
Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling an...
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Eight Months On Ghazzah Street
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140108156
When Frances Shore joins her engineer husband in Jeddah she is warned not to ask questions. But bored, she begins to speculate about her neighbours and the empty flat above her. At first she believes the flat is being used as a lover's tryst - then she suspects something more sinister....
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Wolf Hall
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780007230181
England the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell first as Wolsey's clerk and later his successor.
Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith a political genius a briber a charmer a bully...
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Wolf Hall
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780007292417
England the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell first as Wolsey's clerk and later his successor.
Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith a political genius a briber a charmer a bully...
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