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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...
5 new books to read this week
The Independent via Yahoo News· 2 years agoThe former First Lady is back with a new inspirational book… Fiction 1. Grave Intentions by RV Raman is published in paperback by Pushkin Vertigo, priced...
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 ...
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...
Audiobook gets trigger warning so listening out loud will not offend public
The Telegraph via Yahoo News· 2 months agoAudiobooks are the latest to be given trigger warnings, after novels and TV shows - NATTRASS/E+...
‘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...
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,...
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 ...
‘Almost Famous’ Review: Broadway Musical Adapts a Beloved Film All Too Faithfully
Variety via Yahoo News· 2 years agoWriter-director Cameron Crowe’s Oscar-winning screenplay about a teen rock journalist’s...
Biblioracle: Patricia Lockwood’s essay about the late David Foster Wallace is, for me, a new lens on...
Chicago Tribune via Yahoo News· 10 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 ...