New Releases by Hilary Mantel

THE FINAL BOOK FROM ONE OF OUR GREATEST WRITERS In addition to her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel contributed for years to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she found it. “Ink is a generative fluid,” she explains. “If you don’t mean your words to breed consequences, don’t write at all.” A Memoir of My Former Self collects the finest of this writing over four decades. Her subjects are wide-ranging, sharply observed, and beautifully rendered. She discusses nationalism and her own sense of belonging; our dream life popping into our conscious life; the mythic legacy of Princess Diana; the many themes that feed into her novels—revolutionary France, psychics, Tudor England; and other novelists, from Jane Austen to V.S. Naipaul. She writes about her father and the man who replaced him; she writes fiercely and heartbreakingly about the battles with her health that she endured as a young woman, and the stifling years she found herself living in Saudi Arabia. Here, too, is her legendary essay “Royal Bodies,” on our endless fascination with the current royal family. From her unusual childhood to her all-consuming interest in Thomas Cromwell that grew into the Wolf Hall trilogy, A Memoir of My Former Self reveals the shape of Hilary Mantel’s life in her own luminous words, through “messages from people I used to be.” Filled with her singular wit and wisdom, it is essential reading from one of our greatest writers.

Hilary Mantel and Ben Miles'' exhilarating stage adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, one of 2021''s must-see theatrical events, and the long awaited conclusion to the Oliver Award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy.

Anglia, 1520. Henric al VIII-lea dorește să anuleze căsătoria cu Caterina de Aragon și să o ia de soție pe Anne Boleyn. Poporul și Europa catolică se opun. Un singur om îndrăznește să-și pună în joc viața pentru a câștiga bunăvoința regelui: Thomas Cromwell, un personaj original, deopotrivă fermecător și ticălos, idealist și oportunist, fin cunoscător al caracterului uman și cu o energie fără seamăn. Politician desăvârșit, de neclintit în ambiția sa, Cromwell își croiește cu abilitate drum într-o lume ostilă. Opunându-se parlamentului, politicii de stat și papalității, Cromwell este pregătit să redefinească Anglia conform voinței lui Henric și propriilor sale dorințe. Dar Henric este schimbător: binevoitor într-o zi, gata să ucidă în alta. Cu un stil inimitabil, Hilary Mantel înfățișează tabloul unei societăți în prag de schimbare, în care indivizii luptă cu propriul destin sau îl acceptă cu pasiune și curaj. Romanul recreează o perioadă în care succesul oferă puteri nelimitate, dar o singură greșeală aduce moartea. O narațiune terifiantă, scrisă fermecător... Wolf Hall este o adevărată sărbătoare. Daily Telegraph Amețitor, formidabil de bun... Romanul lui Mantel este o minune de rafinament. Daily Mail O scriitură densă și concisă, un vocabular fastuos. Unele pasaje sunt adevărate tururi de forță, cizelate cu tenacitatea și iscusința unui virtuoz. Le Monde

Desde que o encontramos pela primeira vez, Thomas Cromwell vem tentando precisamente lutar contra os mortos e impedir que continuem determinando o presente e o futuro dos vivos. Em Wolf Hall e Tragam os corpos, assistimos à ascensão desse plebeu que se tornou o principal ministro de Henrique 8o, ajudando-o a se divorciar de Catarina de Aragão e guiando a Inglaterra em seu rompimento com a Igreja de Roma. Transcorrido entre 1536 e 1540, O espelho e a luz começa no ponto exato em que o segundo volume acabou: no cadafalso ensanguentado onde jaz o corpo de Ana Bolena. Após auxiliar o rei a se livrar de mais uma esposa indesejada, Cromwell alcança o auge de sua glória. Mas há velhas sombras e novos obstáculos em seu caminho. No Norte da Inglaterra, rebeldes marcham em defesa do catolicismo; no exterior, os inimigos do rei conspiram para destroná-lo. Além de frustrar esses planos, o múltiplo ministro de Henrique 8o precisa lidar com o caótico temperamento do monarca, que fica mais feroz conforme ele envelhece. O maior adversário de Cromwell, contudo, será sua própria consciência. À medida que sua aventura se aproxima do fim, ele terá de arcar com o peso das vidas que destruiu (e dos princípios que escamoteou) em sua missão de reformar a Inglaterra.

O Livro Negro foi distinguido com o prestigiado Man Booker Prize em 2012, tornando Hilary Mantel o primeiro autor britânico e a primeira mulher a receber por duas vezes este importante prémio literário. Em 1535, Thomas Cromwell é o primeiro-ministro de Henry VIII. A situação favorável em que se encontra coincide com a ascensão de Ann Boleyn, a nova mulher do rei. Mas como Anne não consegue dar um herdeiro ao rei, Cromwell acaba por assistir, vigilante, ao enamoramento de Henry por Jane Seymour. Thomas Cromwell tem de encontrar uma solução que satisfaça o rei, mas que também proteja a nação e ao mesmo tempo assegure a sua carreira. Mas nem ele nem o rei sairão incólumes da encenação sangrenta que marca os últimos dias de Anne Boleyn. Um estrondoso feito literário, O Livro Negro narra a história de um dos mais terríveis acontecimentos da História, contada por uma das grandes romancistas do nosso tempo.

La sorprendente conclusión de la trilogía de Thomas Cromwell,la mejor serie de novela histórica del siglo XXI.El esperado regreso tras ocho años de Hilary Mantel, dos veces ganadora del Premio Man Booker. Inglaterra. Mayo de 1536. Ana Bolena ha muerto, decapitada en un abrir y cerrar de ojos, a manos de un verdugo francés. Mientras sus restos descansan bajo tierra, Thomas Cromwell desayuna con los vencedores y continúa su ascenso al poder y a la riqueza. Su maestro, Enrique VIII, se conforma con una felicidad a corto plazo en los brazos de su tercera reina, Jane Seymour. Cromwell sabe que sólo puede confiar en sí mismo. No tiene una gran familia que lo respalde, ni un ejército privado. Y a pesar de la rebelión interna, de los traidores que se multiplican en el extranjero y de la amenaza de invasión que pone a prueba el reinado de Enrique VIII, Cromwell busca convertir Inglaterra en un nuevo país que se mire en el espejo del futuro. Pero ¿puede realmente una nación, o una persona, desprenderse de su pasado como si fuera piel muerta? «¿Qué haréis –le pregunta el embajador español a Cromwell– cuando el rey se vuelva contra vos como hace tarde o temprano contra todos los que están próximos a él?»

The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Named a best book of 2020 by The New York Times, The Washington Post, TIME, The Guardian, and many more 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. The story begins in May 1536: Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Cromwell breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith’s son from Putney emerges from the spring’s bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen, Jane Seymour. Cromwell, a man with only his wits to rely on, has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry’s regime to the breaking point, Cromwell’s robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. All of England lies at his feet, ripe for innovation and religious reform. But as fortune’s wheel turns, Cromwell’s enemies are gathering in the shadows. The inevitable question remains: how long can anyone survive under Henry’s cruel and capricious gaze? Eagerly awaited and eight years in the making, The Mirror & the Light completes Cromwell’s journey from self-made man to one of the most feared, influential figures of his time. Portrayed by Mantel with pathos and terrific energy, Cromwell is as complex as he is unforgettable: a politician and a fixer, a husband and a father, a man who both defied and defined his age.

Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London''s West End and on Broadway, Hilary Mantel''s Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies bring history to life for a whole new audience having now been adapted into a six-part television series by the BBC and PBS Masterpiece. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe oppose him. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell: a wholly original man, a charmer and a bully, both idealist and opportunist, master of deadly intrigue, and implacable in his ambition.

WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZE WINNER OF THE WALTER SCOTT PRIZE and the NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD SHORTLISTED FOR THE ORANGE PRIZE FOR FICTION and the COSTA NOVEL AWARD Now the inspiration for a BBC mini-series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis, and directed by Peter Kosminsky England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but he has no male heir. Despite opposition from the pope and most of Europe, he is determined to annul his marriage of twenty years and marry Anne Boleyn. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his brilliant adviser, Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum and a deadlock. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. A political genius, a briber, a bully and a charmer, Cromwell has broken all the rules of a rigid society in his ascent to power, and he is preparing to break some more. Pitting himself against parliament, the political establishment and the papacy, he is prepared to reshape England to his own and Henry’s desires.

Hilary Mantel, una de las autoras más aclamadas y prestigiosas de las letras inglesas, nos ofrece una brillante colección de relatos contemporáneos. El asesinato de Margaret Thatcher es el relato central e inédito en el nuevo libro de la autora británica que deslumbra por su calidad literaria y que comparten el gusto por lo insólito, el sentido, a veces sangrante y siempre muy sutil de la ironía británica y la capacidad de síntesis. En cada historia la autora nos ofrece una pieza magistral de su peculiar arte y de su manera de relatar, con una sonrisa cómplice, lo ridículo de cada momento. «La manera de narrar de Mantel urge al lector a suspender completamente su vida normal hasta haber finalizado el libro» The Sunday Times. «Una escritora genialmente vívida e ingeniosa» The Times.

The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, that has been called "scintillating" (New York Times Books Review), "breathtaking" (NPR), "exquisite" (The Chicago Tribune) and "otherworldly" (Washington Post). "A new Hilary Mantel book is an Event with a ‘capital ‘E.''"—NPR "A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat."—USA Today (4 stars) "[Mantel is at] the top of her game."—Salon "Genius."—The Seattle Times One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantel''s trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display. Stories of dislocation and family fracture, of whimsical infidelities and sudden deaths with sinister causes, brilliantly unsettle the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way. Cutting to the core of human experience, Mantel brutally and acutely writes about marriage, class, family, and sex. Unpredictable, diverse, and sometimes shocking, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher displays a magnificent writer at the peak of her powers.

Powieść, za którą autorka otrzymała drugiego Bookera! Dalszy ciąg historii życia Tomasza Cromwella na tle upadku Anny Boleyn! Hilary Mantel, rekonstruując od stuleci owiane tajemnicą okoliczności upadku Anny Boleyn, stworzyła pasjonujące dzieło, na kartach którego postaci sprzed wieków ożywają w pełnym blasku. Henryk VIII zakochuje się w Joannie Seymour. Tomasz Cromwell, wykonując wolę władcy, stara się doprowadzić do rozwiązania małżeństwa z Anną Boleyn, co kończy się – jak wszystkim wiadomo – nie unieważnieniem, tylko ścięciem. Jedna z bardziej znanych historii w dziejach nowoczesnej Anglii, opowiedziana z talentem literackim, który zasłużył na podwójnego Bookera! Siła tej niezwykłej powieści tkwi w szczególe, w odbrązowieniu postaci historycznych, w tchnięciu w nie życia na nowo, w dygresji…

A two-ebook edition of Hilary Mantel’s bestselling novels: Wolf Hall, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2009, and Bring Up the Bodies, winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012. Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, the first two instalments in Hilary Mantel’s Tudor trilogy, have gathered readers and praise in equal and enormous measure. They have been credited with elevating historical fiction to new heights and animating a period of history many thought too well known to be made fresh. Through the eyes and ears of Thomas Cromwell, the books’ narrative prism, we are shown Tudor England, the court of King Henry VIII. 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. In Wolf Hall we witness Cromwell’s rise, beginning as clerk to Cardinal Wolsey, Henry’s chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. He is soon to become his successor. By 1535, when the action of Bring Up the Bodies begins, Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, Henry’s second wife. Anne’s days, though, are marked. Cromwell watches as the king falls in love with silent, plain Jane Seymour, sensing what Henry’s affection will mean for his queen, for England, and for himself.

Now a major TV seriesWinner of the Man Booker Prize 2009Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012Winner of the Costa Book of the Year 2012Shortlisted for the Women’s Prize for Fiction 2013Shortlisted for the the Orange Prize 2009Shortlisted for the Costa Novel Award 2009

Thomas Cromwell er bølle og sjarmør, humanist og slåsskjempe, melankoliker og politisk geni. Folk viker unna ham. Tragedien leder ham fram til Henrik 8s side. Sammen vil de bryte alle lover for å skape et nytt England. Aldri har tudortidens England stått tydeligere for oss: maktens skjønnhet og brutalitet, hofflivets redsler og gleder, hverdagens lukter og smaker. Hilary Mantel regnes som en av de viktigste nålevende engelskspråklige forfattere. Med Ulvetid har hun fått sitt store internasjonale gjennombrudd: Boken har fått en rekke store litterære priser, og lå i toppen av bestselgerlistene både i USA og Storbritannia.

The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel''s Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn. The basis for the TV show on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell. Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Katherine dies in exile from the court, Anne stands starkly exposed, the focus of gossip and malice. At a word from Henry, Thomas Cromwell is ready to bring her down. Over three terrifying weeks, Anne is ensnared in a web of conspiracy, while the demure Jane Seymour stands waiting her turn for the poisoned wedding ring. But Anne and her powerful family will not yield without a ferocious struggle. Hilary Mantel''s Bring Up the Bodies follows the dramatic trial of the queen and her suitors for adultery and treason. To defeat the Boleyns, Cromwell must ally with his natural enemies, the papist aristocracy. What price will he pay for Anne''s head? Named a top 10 Best Book of the Year by The New York Times, Publishers Weekly, and The Washington Post

Una novela que despliega el gran espectáculo de la depredación humana. Un fascinante desfile de deseos, ambiciones y sentimientos. Ganadora del Premio Man Booker Prize 2009. Inglaterra, en 1520, está a un paso del desastre. El rey Enrique VIII no consigue engendrar un heredero varón y quiere divorciarse de su mujer, Catalina de Aragón, para casarse con Ana Bolena, pero el cardenal Wolsey, su principal asesor, no obtiene más que negativas del papa. En este clima de desconfianza y necesidad llega a la corte Thomas Cromwell, al principio como segundo de Wolsey y más tarde como su sucesor. Cromwell es un hombre con una trayectoria original: hijo de un herrero que le trataba con gran brutalidad, llega a ser un genio político, sobornador, encantador y fanfarrón, y con una delicada y mortífera habilidad para manipular los hechos y las personas. Implacable en la consecución de sus propios intereses, es tan exigente con los demás como lo es consigo mismo. Su programa de reformas tiene que abrirse camino entre un parlamento que sólo vela por los intereses de sus miembros y un rey que fluctúa entre las pasiones románticas y las pulsiones asesinas. «La novela más apasionante que puedas leer.» The Times

A teenage girl sees a new side to her mother when she starts to work with her in a department store. .

Just after ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ author Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker for ‘Wolf Hall’, she fell gravely ill. This is her remarkable hospital diary.

De zoon van een smid, Thomas Cromwell (1485-1540), weet zich op te werken tot de belangrijkste staatsman van de Engelse koning Hendrik VIII.

A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the dreary English countryside for a London University hall of residence. Interspersing accounts of her current position as a university student with recollections of her childhood and an ever difficult relationship with her longtime schoolmate Karina, Carmel reflects on a generation of girls desiring the power of men, but fearful of abandoning what is expected and proper. When these bright but confused young women land in late 1960s London, they are confronted with a slew of new preoccupations--sex, politics, food, and fertility--and a pointless grotesque tragedy of their own. Hilary Mantel''s magnificent novel examines the pressures on women during the early days of contemporary feminism to excel--but not be too successful--in England''s complex hierarchy of class and status.

Trouble spirals out of control for a psychic and her personal assistant when they take up with a spirit guide and his drowned therapist after moving to a suburban wasteland.

''Like Lorna Sage''s Bad Blood ... A masterpiece'' RACHEL CUSK ''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.

An English couple''s life in Saudi Arabia told through the eyes of Frances, the wife. She describes the heat, the ugliness and the menace of Islamic law. Men stroll in the street with rifles and from the apartment upstairs comes sobbing. It is nothing her Arab friends tell her, simply a millionaire''s mistress, but Frances knows they are lying. Finally, there is murder.

Man schreibt das Jahr 1782, und Charles O''Brien flüchtet vor dem Hunger aus Irland nach London. O''Brien ist nicht nur von außerordentlicher Gestalt, er ist auch ein Barde, ein Mann der Balladen und Geschichten, der von den alten Mythen erzählt, von irischen Königen und Feen. In London, so verspricht ihm sein Freund und Impresario Joe, wird er eine Sensation sein - in jenem fernen glänzenden London der Geschäftemacher und der Wissenschaftler. Als ''der riesige O''Brien'' bietet er sich dar, und gegen gutes Geld begaffen ihn die sensationslüsternen Massen. Unter den Besuchern ist aber auch ein Mann, dessen scharfer Blick O''Brien Angst einjagt - es ist John Hunter, der Anatom und Sezierer, für seine Experimente berühmt und fieberhaft auf der Suche nach dem Geheimnis des Lebens. Als O''Brien eines Tages entdeckt, dass er erneut anfängt zu wachsen, weiß er, dass er nicht mehr lange zu leben hat. Und inzwischen hat sich auch das Publikum einer anderen, neuesten Kuriosität zugewendet, die Einna hmen bleiben aus. Wieder erscheint Hunter. Er bietet O''Brien Geld für das Recht an seiner Leiche. Ein makabrer Wettstreit um seine Knochen beginnt... Voller Atmosphäre zeichnet Hilary Mantel die bewegenden, teils bizarr komischen Schicksale und entfaltet die Geschichten ihrer Träume. Der auf historischen Fakten beruhende, brillant gezeichnete Zusammenstoß zweier Welten - von Mythos und Machbarkeitsglauben, von Kunst und Naturwissenschaft -, ist von verblüffender Aktualität.

Stephen King meets Muriel Spark in Hilary Mantel''s first novel. Evelyn Axona-medium by trade-and her half-wit daughter Muriel have become a social problem. Barricaded in their once-respectable house, they live amid festering rubbish, unhealthy smells-and secrets. They completely baffle Isabel Field, the social worker assigned to help them. But Isabel is only the most recent in a long line of people that find the Axons impossible. Meanwhile, Isabel has her own problems: a married lover, Colin. He is a history teacher to unresponsive children and father to a passel of his own horrible kids. With all this to worry about, how can Isabel even begin to understand what is going on in the Axon household? When Evelyn finally moves to def Muriel, and Muriel, in turn, acts to protect herself, the results are by turns hilarious and terrifying.

The Giant, O''Brien, is a freak of nature on display in 1782 London. On exhibit for money, he has, he soon finds out, come to die--and a man of science covets the corpse for his own purposes.