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Dame Hilary Mantel: Booker Prize winner whose Wolf Hall engrossed a generation
Press Association News via AOL· 2 years agoDame Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most highly regarded writers, immersed a generation of readers...
Hilary Mantel: Her grasp on character and circumstance was equal to Shakespeare
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe literary world is reeling from the death of twice-Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel, at the age...
The Other Boleyn Girl, Chichester, review: a serviceable start to a new artistic reign
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoThe late Hilary Mantel made her name and catapulted Thomas Cromwell to the forefront of our...
The 9 best TV dramas about the British royal family, ranked according to critics
INSIDER via Yahoo News· 2 years agoClaire Foy in "The Crown."Netflix The British royal family fascinates viewers on both sides of the...
Hilary Mantel: A writer who stared down her past, and the world's, with steely resolve
The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash. via Yahoo News· 2 years agoSep. 29—For many readers, the portal into Hilary Mantel's work was "Wolf Hall" (2009), the first volume of an astonishing trilogy about 16th century fixer and enforcer Thomas Cromwell, who rose ...
Appreciation: Hilary Mantel wasn't just a novelist. She raised the dead
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoHilary Mantel raised the dead. For her millions of readers, the British novelist brought the past to quivering life, revealing her characters’ vanished worlds, private thoughts and crooked hearts ...
Shardlake review: Arthur Hughes is a powerful presence – both brittle and resilient
The Independent US via AOL· 2 months agoBritish schoolchildren are only really taught about three periods of history. The Second World War,...
‘Shardlake’ Review: Hulu’s Tudor-Era Detective Tale
The Wall Street Journal· 2 months agoBased on the books by C.J. Sansom, this series follows a man dispatched by Thomas Cromwell to investigate a murder at a monastery during the English...
Biblioracle: Patricia Lockwood’s essay about the late David Foster Wallace is, for me, a new lens on...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 11 months agoEvery so often I like to check back in with my past reading self as a way to gauge who I was then versus who I am now. We all change as we grow older, right? For example, when I was four years ...
International Insider: Queen Elizabeth Laid To Rest; TF1 & M6 Union Collapses; Spiky In San...
Deadline via Yahoo News· 2 years agoCome in quickly, Insiders. It’s getting colder out there. Jesse Whittock here with a rundown of this...