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HILARY MANTEL the Mirror & the Light Was Published in March This Year the Bookfiles FEATURED AUTHOR from Haringey Libraries HILARY MANTEL The Mirror & the Light was published in March this year. This is the final instalment of the trilogy about Henry VIII’s minister Thomas Cromwell. The first two books in the series were both awarded the Man Booker Prize - Wolf Hall (2009) and Bring Up the Bodies (2012). Hilary Mantel was the first woman to be awarded this prize twice. You can borrow all three books in eBook or eAudiobook format. Follow these links to our digital catalogue (external links). Wolf Hall Bring Up the Bodies The Mirror & the Light Borrow the eBook Borrow the eBook Borrow the eBook Borrow the eAudiobook Borrow the eAudiobook Borrow the eAudiobook We have also brought together here a selection of her previous publications, including nine novels, one autobiography and a collection of short stories. Many of these books can also be borrowed from our digital catalogue – follow the links on these pages. Hilary Mantel’s first novel, Her novel Eight Every Day is Mother's Months on Ghazzah Day, was published in 1985, Street (published in and its sequel, Vacant 1988) drew on her life in Possession, a year later. Saudi Arabia. Her Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize-winning novel Fludd (1989) is set in 1956 in a fictitious northern village called A Place of Greater Fetherhoughton, centring Safety (1992), which on a Roman Catholic traces the career of three church and a convent. French revolutionaries, won the Sunday Express Borrow the eAudiobook Book of the Year award. (external link) the Bookfiles from Haringey Libraries FEATURED AUTHOR HILARY MANTEL A Change of Climate (1994), set in rural Norfolk, explores the lives of Ralph and Anna Eldred, as they raise their four children and An Experiment in Love devote their lives to charity. (1996), which won the An epic yet subtle family Hawthornden Prize, takes saga about what happens place over two university when trust is broken. terms in 1970. Carmel Borrow the eAudiobook begins her experiments in (external link) life and love, but tragedy waits in the wings. Borrow the eBook The Giant, O'Brien (1998) is set (external link) in the 1780s and is based on the Borrow the eAudiobook true story of Charles O'Brien, the (external link) bard and giant who came to London to earn money by displaying himself as a freak. His bones hang today in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. Giving Up the Ghost (2003), which won the Her 2005 novel, MIND Book of the Year Beyond Black, award, is a wry, shocking was shortlisted for and beautifully-written the Orange Prize. memoir of childhood, Set in the late ghosts, illness and family. 1990s and early Borrow the eBook 2000s, it features (external link) a professional Borrow the eAudiobook medium, Alison (external link) Hart, whose calm and jolly exterior conceals grotesque psychic damage. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, in 2014 Hilary Mantel published this collection of short stories. These ten bracingly subversive tales share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit. Borrow the eBook (external link) a Bookfiles information sheet produced by Haringey Libraries.
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