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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...
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 ...
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 ...
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...
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,...
Russell Norman, restaurateur behind Polpo who blazed a trail with small plates and no reservations –...
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 7 months agoRussell Norman, who has died suddenly aged 57, was an Italophile restaurateur who gained a...
‘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...
I wrote a best-selling book – so where’s my money?
The Telegraph via Yahoo Finance· 2 months agoMy name is Ian and I am a broke author. What’s more, I don’t quite understand why. Propelled by positive reviews and strong word of mouth, my book,...