Hilary Mantel

'Bring Up The Bodies' Is The Best Book Yet About Henry VIII And Anne Boleyn

Liz Smith | Posted 05.31.2012

Liz Smith

I am busy now reading Hilary Mantel's "Bring Up the Bodies." This is the best-selling hit sequel to the writer's Man Booker prizewinner, "Wolf Hall" -- a story that even amateur historians just can't get enough of -- the rise and fall of Anne Boleyn and of the men and women who rose and fell with her.

In New Novels, Hilary Mantel Triumphs (Again) & John Irving Is Confused (Sexually)

Michael Giltz | Posted 05.15.2012

Michael Giltz

Sex is not the same thing as love. Author John Irving knows this intellectually and having a bisexual at the center of his latest novel is not a big deal.

Bring Up the Bodies: A Review and Interview With Booker Prize-winning Author Hilary Mantel

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 05.09.2012

Ilana Teitelbaum

In Bring Up the Bodies, the sequel to the Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel weaves a richly textured world that is at once deeply foreign and entirely relevant.

Unearthly Voices: Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel

Ilana Teitelbaum | Posted 06.08.2011

Ilana Teitelbaum

One of the persistent motifs of Beyond Black is the triviality that pervades the spirit world: the idea that the dead are just as preoccupied with the temporal as they were in life.

'Wolf Hall' Wins First Ever Walter Scott Historical Fiction Prize

The Guardian | Richard Lea | Posted 05.25.2011

The novelist Hilary Mantel added another literary award to her NBCC and Booker prizes when Wolf Hall won the inaugural Walter Scott prize for historic...

Orange Prize Shortlist Announced: Barbara Kingsolver, Lorrie Moore, Hilary Mantel Are Finalists

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — American writers Barbara Kingsolver and Lorrie Moore and Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel are among six finalists for Britain's Orange...

Literary MVPs: Have The Best Books Won The Most Prizes?

The Millions | C. Max Magee | Posted 05.25.2011

With the awarding of the International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the 2009/2010 literary award season is now over, which gives us the opportunity to...

Orange Prize WINNER Announced: Barbara Kingsolver Beats Out Hilary Mantel With 'The Lacuna'

Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON (AP) - American novelist Barbara Kingsolver took home the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday with her sixth novel, "The Lacuna,"...

The Orange Prize: Who Were the UK's Favorite Winners?

The Guardian | Alison Flood | Posted 05.25.2011

As Hilary Mantel's Booker prize-winning novel Wolf Hall enters the final straight on even odds to take the Orange prize this evening, Lionel Shriver's...

Orange Prize

AP | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — American novelist Barbara Kingsolver took home the prestigious Orange Prize for Fiction on Wednesday with her sixth novel, "The Lacuna,...

National Book Critics Circle Awards Hilary Mantel's 'Wolf Hall'

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Hilary Mantel's "Wolf Hall," winner last year of the Man Booker Prize in London, was honored Thursday night on this side of the Atlan...

Hilary Mantel, Booker Prize Winner, Says Girls Should Be Able To Have Babies At 14

Telegraph UK | David Harrison | Posted 05.25.2011

The 57-year-old novelist said that society ran on a "male timetable" which dictated that women should have babies at an older age. "Having sex and ha...

National Book Critics Circle Prize Nominees Announced

AP | HILLEL ITALIE | Posted 05.25.2011

NEW YORK — Man Booker Prize winner Hilary Mantel and National Book Award finalists Jayne Anne Phillips and Bonnie Jo Campbell were among the nom...

Books Do Furnish a Room

Michael Jones | Posted 05.25.2011

Michael Jones

Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall: she writes, as Anthony Powell did, a world unto itself. The fire crackles both in the cold drafty Esher Hall where Cardinal Wolsey is exiled to from Hampton Court.

Women Sweep Literature Prizes

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

Is it an accident, the judging panels, a mini-trend or are the tides turning? With the sweep of this year's literary awards, all eyes are on the women...

Margaret Atwood, Anne Rice, Kazuo Ishiguro And Others Share Their Writing Secrets

Wall Street Journal | ALEXANDRA ALTER | Posted 05.25.2011

Richard Powers lounges in bed all day and speaks his novels aloud to a laptop computer with voice-recognition software. Junot Diaz, author of the Puli...

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

The Man Booker Prize | Posted 05.25.2011

Set in England in the 1520s, Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the...

Literary Prize Winners Of 2009 (PHOTOS, POLL)

The Huffington Post | Jessie Kunhardt | Posted 05.25.2011

There were some surprises this year, and a lot of women winning awards. In case you missed them, here are the moments we celebrated in literature duri...

The Man Behind the Man Booker Winner

Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Amy Hertz

In all of publishing and probably much of the world, there's just nobody else like Jack Macrae, the American publisher of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, which just won the Booker.

BIG NEWS: Women Can Write!

The Huffington Post | Erica Jong | Posted 05.25.2011

We have known that women could write since Sappho invented love poetry 2600 years ago. Emily Dickinson, Charlotte Bronte, Jane Austen, George Eliot co...

Hilary Mantel Wins Booker Prize

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

It's official: Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall (John Macrae Books, Henry Holt & Co.) is the winner of the Man Booker Prize for 2009. Yes, this is a time fo...

The New Yorker's Best Books Of The Year

The New Yorker | Posted 05.25.2011

Reviewers' favorites from 2009....

BOOKER PRIZE WINNER: Hilary Mantel, Wolf Hall

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — A tale of political intrigue set during the reign of King Henry VIII won the prestigious Man Booker prize for fiction Tuesday. Hilary ...

Booker Shortlist 2009: Byatt, Coetzee Are Back

AP | JILL LAWLESS | Posted 05.25.2011

LONDON — Previous winners A.S. Byatt and J.M. Coetzee are among six finalists announced Tuesday for literature's prestigious Man Booker Prize. ...