Other books by Hilary Mantel
Fludd
Remote and backward, Fetherhoughton is a village veiled from the twentieth century by moorland fogs. In the parish Father Angwin has lost his faith and replaced it with a strong desire to be left alone. In the convent Sister Philomena yearns for freedom. One night a visitor appears at the Priest’s house, wrapped in a cloak. His conversation is learned, his table manners mysterious. Who is this Fludd? The new curate? The bishop’s spy? A practitioner of the dark arts? His arrival stirs up dead passions and forces confrontations. He says that he has come to transform. ‘Transformation is my business.’
‘Fludd establishes Mantel in the front ranks of novelists writing in English today’ Guardian
A Place of Greater Safety
Amid the rising tides of the French Revolution, three men taste the addictive delights of power. Two are ambitious young lawyers, the third a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, erratic and untrustworthy. Together Danton, Robespierre and Desmoulins find themselves in the centre of a gathering storm, unleashing the darker side of the Revolution’s ideals and experiencing the horrors that follow.
‘Superbly readable … An assured and strange masterpiece’ Sunday Telegraph
A Change of Climate
The Eldreds live in the Red House in Norfolk, raising their four children and devoting their lives to charity. But a crisis is growing in the family. Memories of their time as missionaries in southern Africa, and of the tragedy that has shaped their lives, refuse to be put to rest, threatening to destroy the fragile peace they have built for themselves and their children. As the past seeps into the present, the Eldreds must face the most punishing questions. Is there anything one can never forgive? Is tragedy deserved? Can you ever escape your own past?
‘Mantel has created that rare thing, a page-turner with a profound moral dimension’ Daily Telegraph
An Experiment in Love
It is London, 1970, and Carmel McBain, in her first term at university, has cut free of her childhood roots in the North. Among the gossiping, flirtatious girls of Tonbridge Hall, Carmel begins her experiments in love and life. But the year turns. The miniskirt falls out of fashion and an era of concealment begins. Carmel’s world darkens. Tragedy waits in the wings.
‘The most powerful of all her novels, a near-faultless masterpiece of pathos, observation and feeling’ Sunday Telegraph
The Giant O’Brien
John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead bodies from the gallows and babies’ corpses by the inch. The surprising Irish Giant – Charles O’Brien – may be the sensation of the season, but where is a man to hide his bones when he is still alive?
‘Mantel writes about curiosity, companionship, art, love, death and eternity. She writes with wit, compassion and great elegance. Her books never fail to surprise, nor to delight: in this one she is at her very best – so far’ Independent on Sunday
Giving Up the Ghost
In this extraordinary memoir, Hilary Mantel reclaims the ghosts that have come to haunt her. From childhood daydreams to family secrets, her father’s mysterious disappearance and an adulthood blighted by medical neglect, Mantel uncovers the losses that wrenched her from the patterns of the past and drove her to forge her own remarkable path.
‘A masterpiece’ Guardian
Beyond Black
Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London’s orbital road with her flint-hearted sidekick Colette, passing on messages form dead ancestors. But behind her plump, smiling persona is a desperate woman: the next life holds terrors that she must conceal from her clients, and her own waking hours are plagued by the spirits of men from her past. They infiltrate her house, her body and her soul, and the more she tries to be rid of them, the stronger and nastier they become …
‘A brilliant, extraordinary book’ Helen Dunmore
