The final novel in Hilary Mantel’s great trilogy has been adapted for TV. Her editor joins us this week to discuss working with Mantel on the books. In the long-awaited sequel to “Wolf Hall,” Henry ...

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“What though I am a man of firmness and vigour, fortune is mutable and either my enemies will do me or my friends.” So muses narrator Thomas Cromwell in Hilary Mantel’s thrilling new historical novel ...

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FILE - Winner of the 2009 Booker Prize for fiction Hilary Mantel with their book ' Wolf Hall ' poses for photographers following the announcement in central London, on Oct. 6, 2009. Mantel, the Booker ...

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“Henry would not kill his own daughter,” chirps the ambassador Chapuys (Karim Kadjar) during the opening episode of “Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light.” It’s a judgment that causes Thomas Cromwell a ...

Based on Hilary Mantel’s novel “The Mirror & the Light,” the last installment in the acclaimed television series chronicles the last four years of the statesman’s life Based on a True Story Meilan ...

The great themes in her later career were womanhood, royalty, power. In the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy, her subject was capacious enough for her to symphonize on them at length, with variation. But ...

LONDON (Reuters) - Literary heavyweights Andrea Levy and Hilary Mantel are up against seven first-time novelists in the longlist for the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction honoring women writers in the ...

As she movingly described in her memoir, Giving Up the Ghost (2003), Mantel's life involved considerable struggle. Even without her health problems, she had a difficult enough childhood growing up in ...