LONDON (AP) — Hilary Mantel, the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died, her ...

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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The first two novels of Hilary Mantel’s masterful trilogy—which earned her a pair of Booker Prizes—follow Thomas Cromwell as he ascends from his place as the son of a blacksmith to become one of the ...

“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 ...

Authors JK Rowling, Kate Mosse and Bernardine Evaristo have led the tributes to Dame Hilary Mantel, saying she changed the face of literature. Dame Hilary, author of the best-selling Wolf Hall trilogy ...

The creators behind the widely acclaimed BBC show Wolf Hall almost pulled the plug on a second season after the author’s sudden death. The popular historic drama hailed as a ‘masterpiece’ by fans is ...

“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 ...