Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel is one of our most important living writers. She is the author of eleven books, including Wolf Hall, A Place of Greater Safety, Giving Up the Ghost, and Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize.
Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Appearance
N.B. All dates / times are provisional and subject to final confirmation
| Date: | Saturday 25 September 2010 |
| Time: | 2pm |
| Place: | Temple Church |
| Tickets: | £5 |
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Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall – Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009 – is an historical novel about Henry VIII’s minister Thomas Cromwell and was published in May 2009. 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.
Hilary Mantel is now working on a sequel to Wolf Hall called The Mirror and the Light, which, she says, “traces Thomas Cromwell’s continued rise to power after 1535, and follows him to his own fall and execution in 1540. In this novel the first great crisis is the fall of Anne Boleyn.”
Hilary Mantel also writes reviews and essays, mainly for The Guardian, the London Review of Books and the New York Review of Books.
LINKS
Interview with Hilary Mantel | The Boston Globe | October 2009
The Man Booker Prize
Hilary Mantel: The Novelist’s Arithmetic
Sarah O’Reilly talks to Hilary Mantel
Women over 50 – the invisible generation | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian | August 2009
This is Budleigh Salterton's second literary festival.
