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Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction. An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists. 'Our most brilliant English writer' Guardian Bring Up the Bodies unlocks the darkly glittering court of Henry VIII, where Thomas Cromwell is now chief minister. With Henry captivated by plain Jane Seymour and rumours of Anne Boleyn's faithlessness whispered by all, Cromwell knows what he must do to secure his position. But the bloody theatre of the queen's final days will leave no one unscathed. 'A great novel of dark and dirty passions, public and private. A truly great story' Financial Times 'In another league. This ongoing story of Henry VIII's right-hand man is the finest piece of historical fiction I have ever read' Sunday Telegraph

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

'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.' England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall is that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.

A brilliant - and rather transgressive - collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Including a new story The School of English.

A novel from the author of Giving Up the Ghost and A Place of Greater Safety.

The magnificent final book from the bestselling author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy[Bokinfo].

An extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up the 4th Estate Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.

'Like Lorna Sage's Bad Blood ... A masterpiece.' Rachel Cusk Giving Up the Ghost is the shocking and beautiful memoir, from the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light 'Giving up the Ghost' is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's uniquely unusual five-part autobiography. Opening in 1995 with 'A Second Home', Mantel describes the death of her stepfather which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of her childhood. In 'Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' Mantel takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating in the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelight ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'Smile', an account of teenage perplexity, Mantel describes a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Finally, at the memoir's conclusion, Mantel explains how through a series of medical misunderstandings and neglect she came to be childless and how the ghosts of the unborn like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.

This exquisite novel tells a love story with a difference. * 'One of my favourite classics' Carmen Callil

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, 'I have no critical... číst celé

A photography book that is a vital accompaniment to the many fans of Hilary Mantel's bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy

From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies', this is an epic yet subtle family saga about broken trusts and buried secrets.

Muriel Axon is about to re-enter the lives of Colin Sidney, hapless husband, father and schoolmaster, and Isabel Field, failed social worker and practising neurotic. It has been ten years since her last tangle with them, but there are still scores to be settled. The author also wrote "Fludd".

Hilary Mantel's superb story of suburban mayhem and revenge is sharp, merciless and unerringly hilarious. Barricaded inside their house filled with festering rubbish, unhealthy smells and their secrets, the Axon family baffle Isabel Field, the latest in a long line of social workers. Isabel has other problems too: a randy, untrustworthy father and a slackly romantic lover, Colin Sidney, history teacher to unresponsive yobs and father of a parcel of horrible children. With all this to worry about, how can Isabel begin to understand what is going on in the Axon household?

In the wake of Hilary Mantel's captivating memoir, 'Giving Up the Ghost', this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. This sharp, funny collection of stories drawn from life begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In 'King Billy is a Gentleman', the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. 'Curved Is the Line of Beauty' is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In 'Third Floor Rising', she watches, dazzled, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity. With a deceptively light touch, Mantel locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

Follows on from "A Change of Climate". Carmel, Karina and Julianne are escaping the dreary north for a London University hall of residence in 1970. Awaiting them is a winter of new preoccupations - sex and politics, food and fertility - and a pointless grotesque tragedy of their own.

By the Booker Prize-Winning Author of WOLF HALL Evelyn Axon is a medium by trade; her daughter, Muriel, is a half-wit by nature. Barricaded in their crumbling house, surrounded by the festering rubbish of years, they defy the curiosity of their neighbors and their social worker, Isabel Field. Isabel is young and inexperienced and has troubles of her own: an elderly father who wanders the streets, and a lover, Colin, who wants her to run away with him. But Colin has three horrible children and a shrill wife who is pregnant again--how is he going to run anywhere? As Isabel wrestles with her own problems, a horrible secret grows in the darkness of the Axon household. When at last it comes to light, the result is by turns hilarious and terrifying.

When Frances Shore moves to Saudi Arabia, she settles in a nondescript sublet, sure that common sense and an open mind will serve her well with her Muslim neighbors. But in the dim, airless flat, Frances spends lonely days writing in her diary, hearing the sounds of sobs through the pipes from the floor above, and seeing the flitting shadows of men on the stairwell. It's all in her imagination, she's told by her neighbors; the upstairs flat is empty, no one uses the roof. But Frances knows otherwise, and day by day, her sense of foreboding grows even as her sense of herself begins to disintegrate.

Eine böse Komödie der Hartherzigkeit. Man liest den Roman mit unheimlichem Vergnügen. Frank Meyer, DEUTSCHLANDRUNDFUNK KULTUR 'Der Hilfsprediger' ist die Geschichte einer Befreiung. Hilary Mantel beginnt ihren Roman englischgrau und lässt ihn strahlend hell enden. Ulrich Fischer, HUFFINGTONPOST.DE Ein eigenwilliges Buch; süffisant, provozierend wie die Autorin selbst. Ironisch und souverän spielt sie mit den Versatzstücken des magischen Realismus, der dem Fantastischen auch in der modernen Literatur einen Platz einräumt. Jutta Duhm-Heitzmann, WDR 5 SCALA So bissig, lustig, ironisch. Das ist alles so frisch, und das beste Beispiel für eine Literatur, die ohne Haltbarkeitsdatum funktioniert. Katrin Schumacher, MDR KULTUR Mantels Schreiben verfällt man nur zu gern. Alexander Behrmann, ROLLING STONE 'Der Hilfsprediger' ist [...] bereits 1989 im Original erschienen. Doch er kommt so frisch und frech daher, dass man gar nicht genug bekommen kann von dieser skurrilen und urkomischen Geschichte. Petra Pluwatsch, KÖLNER STADT-ANZEIGER Mit subtiler Ironie und einer guten Portion Weisheit Gaby Mahlberg, DPA Zeitlos böse und teilweise sehr komisch ist der Roman 'Der Hilfsprediger' von Hilary Mantel Britta Bode, BERLINER MORGENPOST Die britische Meisterautorin Hilary Mantel [erzählt] mit dem für sie typischen rasiermesserscharfen Witz von einem ungewöhnlichen Kampf zwischen Gut und Böse. Köstliches Gift. Ute Baumhackl, KLEINE ZEITUNG

From the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light, comes the true story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien, who was exhibited in London and eventually dissected by the surgeon John Hunter.

How can we understand India today, fifty years after Independence and only months after its nuclear tests outraged the world? The novelist Arundhati Roy has written, specially for this collection, a fierce denunciation of the Indian nuclear program, which serves as an introduction to nine essays on India, all originally published in The New York Review of Books . In this volume, seven distinguished writers offer penetrating insights into the complexities of the subcontinent. Roderick MacFarquhar reflects on the legacy of Empire and Partition, Ian Buruma considers secularism and Indian democracy, Pankaj Mishra remembers life in Benares, and Christopher de Bellaigue writes on a violent Bombay. But the volatile intersections of history, politics, and culture on which they focus haunt Indian literature too, as shown in essays by Nobel Prize-winner Amartya Sen on Rabindranath Tagore, Hilary Mantel on Rohinton Mistry, and Anita Desai on Indian women's writing.

Kaddáfího režim mu ukradol otca a spravil z neho vyhnanca. Dvadsaťpäť rokov nevidel svoje mesto, svoje ulice, svoj rodný dom. Teraz, keď diktatúra padla, rozhodol sa vrátiť. Žije ešte jeho otec? A ak zomrel – ako a kedy? Za svoj silný autobiografický román Návrat dostal líbyjsko-britský spisovateľ Hišám Matar Pulitzerovu cenu. Ponára sa v ňom do tých najväčších hĺbok samého seba i svojej krajiny. V Líbyi, ktorá zo seba zhodila okovy autokratického Kaddáfího režimu hľadá nielen svojho strateného otca, ktorý po únose zmizol kdesi v hlbinách krutej väznice Abú Salím, ale aj ďalších rodinných príslušníkov, za ktorých prepustenie bojoval zo svojho londýnskeho exilu. Kto prežil toto dlhé utrpenie? Komu sa to podarilo? Vo svojom rýdzo osobnom príbehu nám Hišám Matar ponúka aj výnimočný portrét Líbye – minulej, prítomnej i budúcej. Od oslobodenia spod talianskej nadvlády až po občiansku vojnu na začiatku 21. storočia.

In ›Sprechen lernen‹ folgen wir Hilary Mantels Figuren ins England der Fünfziger- und Sechzigerjahre, betreten abgelegene Dörfer und Schrottplätze, besuchen altmodische Kaufhäuser und Klosterschulen. Es sind diese unscheinbaren, »von rauen Winden und derben Klatschmäulern geplagten Orte«, die zum Schauplatz eben jener Momente werden, die den jungen Protagonisten und Protagonistinnen noch lange in Erinnerung bleiben. Momente, die ihr Leben für immer prägen werden: das Verschwinden des leiblichen Vaters, die neue Identität der Mutter, das plötzliche Verlorengehen und das mühsame Sprechenlernen. Leicht, aber voller Hintersinn und mit gnadenlosem Witz gewährt uns die zweifache Booker-Preisträgerin einen erzählerischen Einblick in die Rätsel ihrer Kindheit und Jugend, ohne sie je in Gänze aufzulösen. »Diese Erzählungen bergen Welten, die so groß sind wie die der längsten Romane Mantels.« THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW

The first book in the landmark Cazalet Chronicles, previously a BBC radio and TV series. With the onset of war, The Light Years reveals a privileged family facing uncertain times.

Von der Provinz über die Klosterschule ins 'Swinging London' der siebziger Jahre - Carmel soll nach dem Willen ihrer Eltern gesellschaftlich aufsteigen. Doch sie lernt, daß fremde Wünsche nicht immer den eigenen entsprechen. In der verwirrend turbulenten Vielfalt neuer Lebensformen und unbekannter Gefühle sucht sie sich den Weg, der ihr entspricht.

14 luglio 1789. Una folla inferocita espugna la Bastiglia, fortezza simbolo dell'assolutismo monarchico. I muri vengono abbattuti, le guardie trucidate, e lungo la strada per il municipio - dove lo stanno portando in corteo per essere giudicato - il governatore della prigione finisce linciato. La sua testa, staccata dal corpo con un coltello da macellaio, viene infilzata su una picca e, più tardi, presa a calci sotto la Lanterna di place de Grève. Nessuno ancora può saperlo, ma sarà solo la prima delle tante teste che cadranno negli anni a venire, quando nelle piazze e nelle vie di Parigi i piedi affonderanno nel sangue e alla Lanterna finiranno appesi corpi a decine. Dietro la presa della Bastiglia ci sono un pugno di uomini straordinari: Camille Desmoulins, giovane scrittore ammirato dagli uomini per i suoi velenosi pamphlet e dalle donne per la sua vita spregiudicata; Georges-Jacques Danton, audace leader dei cordiglieri, temuto tanto per la sua brillante oratoria quanto per il viso sfregiato; Maximilien Robespierre, procuratore sempre dalla parte degli ultimi. Non sono gli unici, in quegli anni, ad aver immaginato - nella foschia della stanchezza e dell'alcol delle notti passate nei caffè - un mondo più libero e giusto, ma soltanto loro hanno il carisma e la forza di imporre alla storia la propria volontà.

Met de Rozenoorlogen vers in het geheugen staat Engeland rond 1520 op het randje van anarchie. Als de koning komt te overlijden zonder mannelijke troonopvolger, zou dat opnieuw burgeroorlog betekenen. Henry VIII wil daarom zijn huwelijk met Katherine van Aragon ongeldig verklaren en met Anne Boleyn trouwen. De paus en het grootste deel van Europa zijn ertegen. Uiteindelijk betekent deze kwestie zelfs de ondergang van Henry's adviseur, kardinaal Wolsey. Er ontstaat een machtsvacuüm en een impasse. Zoon van een brute smid, politiek genie, omkoper, mannetjesputter en charmeur: het is Thomas Cromwell die in deze impasse stapt. In zijn niet te stuiten opmars naar de macht heeft hij al heel wat regels van een rigide klassenmaatschappij gebroken, en als het moet breekt hij er nog wat meer. Cromwell staat op uit de puinhopen van persoonlijke rampspoed - het verlies van zijn jonge gezin en van Wolsey, zijn geliefde baas - en behendig vindt hij zijn weg naar en door het koninklijk hof waar man is wolf to man . Tegen alles en iedereen in is hij bereid Engeland te hervormen naar zijn en Henry's wensen.

La storia della Rivoluzione francese attraverso la vita di tre personaggi giganteschi, Robespierre, Danton e Desmoulins, tre giovani uomini provenienti da una classe media istruita in lotta contro le proprie famiglie, contro le proprie origini, contro le regole sociali entro cui agiscono e contro la loro stessa natura. Hilary Mantel ha colto il sentimento di una generazione intera: l’eccitazione di fronte alla prospettiva di un nuovo ordine, di un mondo nuovo e più giusto. Con la ormai consueta bravura nel cucire la grande Storia con quelle più intime e private dei suoi protagonisti, Hilary Mantel costruisce l’affresco possente e avventuroso della parabola esistenziale dei più grandi rivoluzionari. Per questi uomini e per le loro famiglie la Rivoluzione è un rito sanguinoso: le forze che loro stessi hanno contribuito a liberare cambieranno il mondo, ma distruggeranno le loro vite.