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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...
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 ...
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...
The Other Boleyn Girl, Chichester, review: a serviceable start to a new artistic reign
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 5 days agoThe late Hilary Mantel made her name and catapulted Thomas Cromwell to the forefront of our...
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 ...
‘Becoming Elizabeth’ Finds a New (and Newly Disturbing) Way Into a Familiar Tudor Story: TV Review
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoFew British dynasties have inspired as much material in recent years as that of the Tudors. From...
Shardlake review: Arthur Hughes is a powerful presence – both brittle and resilient
The Independent US via AOL· 1 day agoBritish schoolchildren are only really taught about three periods of history. The Second World War,...
Ottessa Moshfegh's dark 'Lapvona,' Riley Sager thriller: 5 must-read new books this week
USA TODAY via Yahoo News· 2 years ago“My Year of Rest and Relaxation" author Ottessa Moshfegh returns with a twisted new treat while...
‘Shardlake’ Review: Hulu’s Tudor-Era Detective Tale
The Wall Street Journal· 1 day 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...