The Mirror and The Light

12noon Temple Church
Saturday 17 September 2011

Chair: Professor Helen Taylor

We have the unique privilege of hearing Hilary Mantel read from her new work in progress, The Mirror and the Light, sequel to the great Wolf Hall.

Hilary Mantel, winner of the 2009 Man Booker prize for Wolf Hall, a penetrating novel about Thomas Cromwell and the court of Henry VIII, is now writing a sequel, The Mirror and the Light. Her new novel follows Thomas Cromwell to the heights of his power, and chronicles his fall and execution in the summer of 1540.

Hilary Mantel is an acclaimed English novelist, short story writer and critic.

Her work, ranges in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction. Set in a myriad places and times – from Tudor England, eighteenth century Ireland and France, South Africa in the apartheid era, a Peak District village in the 1950s to modern-day Saudi Arabia – her talent and curiosity in evoking times past and present, and the characters inhabiting these worlds, is audacious.

Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival Appearance

Box office opens 11th July 2011

Tickets are available from the Tourist Information Centre on the High Street opposite Temple Church.

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