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Bring Up the Bodies

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429947659
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Bring Up the Bodies written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2012-05-08 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne's head? Bring Up the Bodies is one of The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2012, one of Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 and one of The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2012

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0008429987
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books written by Hilary Mantel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2020-10-01 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light

Wolf Hall

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443402842
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Wolf Hall written by Hilary Mantel and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-07-01 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his advisor, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. The son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his rise to power. Narrowly escaping personal disaster—the loss of his young family and of Wolsey, his beloved patron—he picks his way deftly through a court where “man is wolf to man.” Pitting himself against parliament, the political establishment and the papacy, he is prepared to reshape England to his own and Henry’s desires. In inimitable style, Hilary Mantel presents a picture of a half-made society on the cusp of change, where individuals fight or embrace their fate with passion and courage. Wolf Hall re-creates an era when the personal and political are separated by a hair’s breadth, where success brings unlimited power, but a single failure means death.

The Mirror & the Light

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 0805096612
Total Pages : 831 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Mirror & the Light written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2020-03-10 with total page 831 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her peerless, Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man’s vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion and courage. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze? Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell’s journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.

A Place of Greater Safety

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 0312426399
Total Pages : 770 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (124 download)

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Download or read book A Place of Greater Safety written by Hilary Mantel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2006-11-14 with total page 770 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Set during the French Revolution, this "riveting historical novel" ("The New Yorker") is the story of three young provincials who together helped destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves.

Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies: The Stage Adaptation

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 1250064171
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Wolf Hall & Bring Up the Bodies: The Stage Adaptation written by Hilary Mantel and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2015-02-24 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Hilary Mantel's novels are the most formidable literary achievements of recent times, both recipients of the Man Booker Prize. Adapted by Mike Poulton, the plays were premiered by the Royal Shakespeare Company at the Swan Theatre, Stratford-upon-Avon, in December 2013, directed by Jeremy Herrin. - This edition contains a substantial set of notes by Hilary Mantel on each of the principal characters, offering a unique insight into the plays and an invaluable resource to any reader looking for an even deeper understanding of Mantel's historical creations - A North American production is expected in 2015. - Taken together Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have sold more than 3 million copies and have been translated into 36 languages"--

I the Supreme

Author : Augusto Roa Bastos
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0525564691
Total Pages : 450 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (255 download)

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Download or read book I the Supreme written by Augusto Roa Bastos and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2019-02-26 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I the Supreme imagines a dialogue between the nineteenth-century Paraguayan dictator known as Dr. Francia and Policarpo Patiño, his secretary and only companion. The opening pages present a sign that they had found nailed to the wall of a cathedral, purportedly written by Dr. Francia himself and ordering the execution of all of his servants upon his death. This sign is quickly revealed to be a forgery, which takes leader and secretary into a larger discussion about the nature of truth: “In the light of what Your Eminence says, even the truth appears to be a lie.” Their conversation broadens into an epic journey of the mind, stretching across the colonial history of their nation, filled with surrealist imagery, labyrinthine turns, and footnotes supplied by a mysterious “compiler.” A towering achievement from a foundational author of modern Latin American literature, I the Supreme is a darkly comic, deeply moving meditation on power and its abuse—and on the role of language in making and unmaking whole worlds.

Giving Up the Ghost

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1429900652
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Giving Up the Ghost written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2004-09-01 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation for the life her body was denied. Selected by the New York Times as one of the 50 Best Memoirs of the Past 50 Years “The story of my own childhood is a complicated sentence that I am always trying to finish, to finish and put behind me.” In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most extraordinary feats were within her grasp. But at nineteen, she became ill. Through years of misdiagnosis, she suffered patronizing psychiatric treatment and destructive surgery that left her without hope of children. Beset by pain and sadness, she decided to “write herself into being”—one novel after another. This wry and visceral memoir will certainly bring new converts to Mantel’s dark genius. “Mesmerizing.”—The New York Times

An Experiment in Love

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007354924
Total Pages : 26 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book An Experiment in Love written by Hilary Mantel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 26 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Following ‘A Change in Climate’, this brilliant novel from the double Man Booker prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’ is a coming-of-age tale set in Seventies London.

Wolf Hall: Winner of the Man Booker Prize (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1)

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007322747
Total Pages : 664 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Wolf Hall: Winner of the Man Booker Prize (The Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book 1) written by Hilary Mantel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2009-04-30 with total page 664 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the Man Booker Prize Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award `Dizzyingly, dazzlingly good' Daily Mail ‘Our most brilliant English writer’ Guardian

Wolf Hall Companion

Author : Lauren Mackay
Publisher : Batsford Books
ISBN 13 : 184994685X
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (499 download)

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Download or read book Wolf Hall Companion written by Lauren Mackay and published by Batsford Books. This book was released on 2020-09-08 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An accessible and authoritative companion to the bestselling Wolf Hall trilogy by Hilary Mantel, published after the third and final book, The Mirror and the Light. Wolf Hall Companion gives an historian's view of what we know about Thomas Cromwell, one of the most powerful men of the Tudor age and the central character in Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy. Covering the key court and political characters from the books, this companion guide also works as a concise Tudor history primer. Alongside Thomas Cromwell, the author explores characters including Anne Boleyn, Thomas Cranmer, Jane Seymour, Henry VIII, Thomas Howard, Cardinal Wolsey and Richard Fox. The important places in the court of Henry VIII are introduced and put into context, including Hampton Court, the Tower of London, Cromwell's home Austin Friars, and of course Wolf Hall. The author explores not only the real history of these people and places, but also Hilary Mantel's interpretation of them.

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Henry Holt and Company
ISBN 13 : 1627792112
Total Pages : 142 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (277 download)

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Download or read book The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher written by Hilary Mantel and published by Henry Holt and Company. This book was released on 2014-09-30 with total page 142 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, that has been called "scintillating" (New York Times Books Review), "breathtaking" (NPR), "exquisite" (The Chicago Tribune) and "otherworldly" (Washington Post). "A new Hilary Mantel book is an Event with a ‘capital ‘E.'"—NPR "A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat."—USA Today (4 stars) "[Mantel is at] the top of her game."—Salon "Genius."—The Seattle Times One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths with sinister causes, brilliantly unsettle the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way. Cutting to the core of human experience, Mantel brutally and acutely writes about marriage, class, family, and sex. Unpredictable, diverse, and sometimes shocking, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher displays a magnificent writer at the peak of her powers.

Beyond Black

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins Canada
ISBN 13 : 1443404543
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (434 download)

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Download or read book Beyond Black written by Hilary Mantel and published by HarperCollins Canada. This book was released on 2010-12-14 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Alison Hart is a medium by trade. But her ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman. Her days and nights are haunted by the men she knew in her childhood, the thugs and petty criminals who preyed upon her hopeless, addled mother, Emmie. And the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become.

They

Author : Kay Dick
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 1946022284
Total Pages : 128 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (46 download)

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Download or read book They written by Kay Dick and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 128 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A dark, dystopian portrait of artists struggling to resist violent suppression—“queer, English, a masterpiece.” (Hilton Als) Set amid the rolling hills and the sandy shingle beaches of coastal Sussex, this disquieting novel depicts an England in which bland conformity is the terrifying order of the day. Violent gangs roam the country destroying art and culture and brutalizing those who resist the purge. As the menacing “They” creep ever closer, a loosely connected band of dissidents attempt to evade the chilling mobs, but it’s only a matter of time until their luck runs out. Winner of the 1977 South-East Arts Literature Prize, Kay Dick’s They is an uncanny and prescient vision of a world hostile to beauty, emotion, and the individual.

Learning to Talk: Short stories

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : HarperCollins UK
ISBN 13 : 0007354886
Total Pages : 20 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (73 download)

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Download or read book Learning to Talk: Short stories written by Hilary Mantel and published by HarperCollins UK. This book was released on 2010-05-06 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A companion piece to the captivating memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST by the Man Booker-winning author, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

Fludd

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429900628
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Fludd written by Hilary Mantel and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2000-06-01 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop. Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his plate disappears. Fludd becomes lover, gravedigger, and savior, transforming his dull office into a golden regency of decision, unashamed sensation, and unprecedented action. Knitting together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous, Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.

Vacant Possession

Author : Hilary Mantel
Publisher : Holt Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 1429954574
Total Pages : 322 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Vacant Possession written by Hilary Mantel and published by Holt Paperbacks. This book was released on 2010-08-31 with total page 322 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon was locked away for society's protection, but psychiatric confinement has only increased her malice and ingenuity. At last free, she sets into motion an intricate plan to exact revenge on those who had her put away. Her former social worker, Isabel, and her old neighbors have moved on, but Muriel, with her talent for disguise, will infiltrate their homes and manipulate their lives, until all her enemies are brought together for a gruesome finale. Hilary Mantel's razor-sharp wit animates every page of this darkly comic tale of retribution.