``History is fiction,'' Robespierre observes at one point during British writer Mantel's monumental fictive account of the French Revolution. In her hands, it is a spellbinding read. Mantel recounts...
A psychic named Alison endures the harrowing torment of a collective of ghosts she calls the Fiends, the spirits of cruel men from her childhood. As the book progresses, the present increasingly...
Winner of the 2009 Man Booker Prize, Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction. England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country...
The brilliant #1 New York Times bestseller Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with her Booker Prize-winning novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the...
WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE The New York Times' 10 Best Books of 2012 Publishers Weekly's Top 10 Best Books of 2012 The Washington Post's 10 Best Books of 2012 The sequel to Wolf Hall,...
