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Hilary Mantel

Born

in Glossop, Derbyshire, The United Kingdom

July 06, 1952

Died

September 22, 2022

Website

https://hilary-mantel.com

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Historical Fiction

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Hilary Mantel was the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction. Bring Up the Bodies, Book Two of the Wolf Hall Trilogy, was also awarded the Man Booker Prize and the Costa Book Award. She also wrote A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, An Experiment in Love, The Giant, O'Brien, Fludd, Beyond Black, Every Day Is Mother's Day, Vacant Possession, and a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Mantel was the winner of the Hawthornden Prize, and her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 463,971 ratings · 47,532 reviews · 125 distinct works • Similar authors

	Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 233,321 ratings — published 2009 — 231 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #2) 4.30 avg rating — 104,950 ratings — published 2012 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Mirror & the Light (Thomas Cromwell, #3) 4.41 avg rating — 46,975 ratings — published 2020 — 92 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Place of Greater Safety 4.01 avg rating — 12,046 ratings — published 1992 — 55 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher 3.44 avg rating — 11,375 ratings — published 2014 — 64 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Beyond Black 3.43 avg rating — 10,128 ratings — published 2005 — 43 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies (Thomas Cromwell, #1-2) 4.35 avg rating — 5,771 ratings — published 2012 — 13 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Fludd 3.57 avg rating — 5,602 ratings — published 1989 — 39 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Giving Up the Ghost 3.95 avg rating — 4,970 ratings — published 2003 — 49 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Change of Climate 3.89 avg rating — 3,178 ratings — published 1994 — 29 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Thomas Cromwell (3 books)
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What book about the Tudors or Tudor England would you like for our Group Read in April 2020?

The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel

17 votes, 32.1%

1536: The Year That Changed Henry VIII by Suzannah Lipscomb

7 votes, 13.2%

The Sultan and the Queen: The Untold Story of Elizabeth and Islam by Jerry Brotton

6 votes, 11.3%

Elizabeth's Rival: The Tumultuous Life of the Countess of Leicester: The Romance and Conspiracy that Threatened Queen Elizabeth's Court by Nicola Tallis

6 votes, 11.3%

Queen of Martyrs: The Story of Mary I by Samantha Wilcoxson

4 votes, 7.5%

Elizabeth's London: Everyday Life in Elizabethan London by Liza Picard

4 votes, 7.5%

Tudor: Passion. Manipulation. Murder. The Story of England's Most Notorious Royal Family by Leanda de Lisle

4 votes, 7.5%

Wolsey: The Life of King Henry VIII's Cardinal by John Matusiak

3 votes, 5.7%

Henry VIII by J.J. Scarisbrick

1 vote, 1.9%

Walter Ralegh: Architect of Empire by Alan Gallay

1 vote, 1.9%

53 total votes

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