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    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Obituary
      Hilary Mantel, writer, 1952-2022

      A brilliant novelist and critic who understood her craft

    • Friday, 23 September, 2022
      Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel dies aged 70

      Writer who redefined historical fiction was ‘one of the greatest English novelists of this century’

    • Saturday, 10 September, 2022
      Q&AThe Questionnaire
      Hilary Mantel: ‘Human beings are such miracles, yet so defectively assembled’

      The novelist on her earliest memory, the afterlife and Tertius, ‘the Prince of Cats’

    • Tuesday, 23 February, 2021
      Residential
      Fantasy home: finery and intrigue in Thomas Cromwell’s medieval London abode

      Atmospherically evoked by Hilary Mantel in ‘Wolf Hall’, the domestic world of Henry VIII’s arch-fixer offers an escape from lockdown tedium

    • Saturday, 5 December, 2020
      FT SeriesWomen of 2020
      Hilary Mantel: ‘I think of writing as the arena of peril’

      The author of the Wolf Hall trilogy on what’s next, doctors and why writing is like fighting

    • Thursday, 2 July, 2020
      FT SeriesA very different summer
      Lockdown’s ending and I still can’t finish the latest Hilary Mantel

      Miranda Green is weighed down by Thomas Cromwell’s impending doom in The Mirror and the Light

    • Friday, 13 March, 2020
      ReviewAudio books
      Four immersive audiobooks to while away your self-isolation

      Hilary Mantel and Lucy Ellmann supply long-haul listening — just when we need them

    • Friday, 6 March, 2020
      The best of TV and streaming this week
      Hilary Mantel plays with ghosts in Return to Wolf Hall

      The dead are ‘like a backing group’, reflects the novelist in this insightful BBC2 documentary

    • Friday, 28 February, 2020
      FT Books Essay
      The Mirror and the Light by Hilary Mantel — ‘majestic and poetic’

      Simon Schama looks at how the novelist reanimates both Cromwell and his world in the last volume of her trilogy

    • Friday, 21 February, 2020
      Life & Arts
      How Hilary Mantel’s Tudor anti-hero redefined historical fiction

      The Booker-winning author of the Wolf Hall trilogy has made Thomas Cromwell into a character for our age

    • Tuesday, 19 December, 2017
      Best of the FT in 2017
      Lunch with the FT: the best interviews of 2017

      Who gave a giant tip? Who had 12 courses? Who admired the ‘brutality’ of Game of Thrones? Have lunch again with Ecclestone, Huppert and Mantel . . .

    • Friday, 2 June, 2017
      Lunch with the FTLunch with the FT: the best interviews of 2017
      Novelist Hilary Mantel on truth and Thomas Cromwell

      The writer discusses the Tudors and why Prince Charles would be an ‘interesting’ king

    • Saturday, 8 April, 2017
      Kate Maltby
      Wanted: plinths for remarkable women

      One political heroine is getting a statue near parliament, but we need many more

    • Thursday, 19 February, 2015
      Janan Ganesh
      Punk Tories and Ecstasy entrepreneurs

      The arts are accused of leftwing bias but look at popular culture and a different picture emerges

    • Friday, 9 January, 2015
      FT Magazine
      Interview: Claire Foy, Anne Boleyn in ‘Wolf Hall’

      The FT talks to the actor about the challenges of the role in the BBC’s new adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s novels, and to Hilary Mantel

    • Friday, 26 September, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’, by Hilary Mantel

      Horror meets the horrid in this wickedly good collection of short stories

    • Monday, 19 May, 2014
      ReviewLife & Arts
      Wolf Hall/Bring Up the Bodies, Aldwych Theatre, London – review

      Ben Miles is superb as Thomas Cromwell in this vivid, subtle staging of Hilary Mantel’s novels

    • Thursday, 10 October, 2013
      UK retail results
      Third Bridget book leads ‘Super Thursday’ rush

      Booksellers hope for bumper run to Christmas as new titles are published

    • Monday, 3 June, 2013
      ReviewBooks
      Baileys takes over sponsorship of women’s fiction award
    • Friday, 31 May, 2013
      ReviewLife & Arts
      In brief
    • Sunday, 24 February, 2013
      Lucy Kellaway
      I can’t stop my cyber loafing

      We need the equivalent of the stocks to persuade people to get off the net and get on with their work

    • Friday, 22 February, 2013
      World
      Unwise to bring up the royal body

      Mantel v Middleton shows what happens when an intellectual comments on a public subject

    • Tuesday, 19 February, 2013
      Life & Arts
      PM calls attack on duchess ‘misguided’
    • Friday, 1 February, 2013
      Person in the NewsWorld
      Hilary Mantel: author in tune with the times

      The novelist brings a modern sensibility to a pivotal point in history

    • Tuesday, 29 January, 2013
      Books
      Hilary Mantel wins Book of the Year prize
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