Early verdicts heap praise on Hilary Mantel’s 900-page “masterpiece,” The Mirror and the Light
So now, get up to your local book store next week, for the release of The Mirror and the Light—the third in Hilary Mantel’s extraordinary trilogy chronicling the life of Thomas… Read more »
Single billboard heralds arrival of new Hilary Mantel novel
Earlier this week, a mysterious billboard appeared above an entrance to London’s Leicester Square Tube station. It read, simply, SO NOW GET UP. And it featured a Tudor Rose in the… Read more »
BBC to adapt Hilary Mantel’s French Revolution book
Hilary Mantel has had a smash success with her Tudor-era historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, recently turned into a successful TV adaptation by the BBC, airing… Read more »
“Grim, grim, grim”? What kind of endings do British audiences like?
British television audiences have experienced their fair share of the grim and gloomy in recent times. Scandi-crime exports such as ‘The Killing’ and ‘The Bridge’ brought hard violence and murder… Read more »
Royal Shakespeare Company’s Wolf Hall headed to Broadway
No longer content merely to perform William Shakespeare’s history plays about the Lancastrian and Tudor kings, the Royal Shakespeare Company started performing stage adaptations of Hilary Mantel’s historical novels, Wolf… Read more »