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Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel

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An interview with Hilary Mantel

Hilary Mantel, author of Wolf Hall (2009), discusses her Booker winning novel at the the London bookstore, Daunt Books (3 part video)





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Books by this Author

Books by Hilary Mantel at BookBrowse
A Memoir of My Former Self jacket Learning to Talk jacket The Mirror & the Light jacket The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher jacket
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    He graduated from Clare College, Cambridge, and studied at Yale University as a Mellon Fellow, where he completed Notes for a New Culture: ... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    Bring Up the Bodies

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    Vanora Bennett became a journalist almost by accident. Having learned Russian and been hired after university by Reuters, she was catapulted out of the classical-music life of her family and straight into the adrenaline-... (more)

    If you enjoyed:
    Wolf Hall

    Try:
    Portrait of an Unknown Woman
    by Vanora Bennett

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