Wolf Hall author Dame Hilary Mantel has called for the skeleton of the 18th Century ‘Irish Giant’ currently held by the Royal College of Surgeons to be repatriated after he asked to be buried at sea. Mantel wrote The Giant, O’Brien, a fictionalised account of 8ft 4in Charles Byrne, who suffered from acromegalic gigantism and … Read more
Dame Hilary Mantel is tipped for her third Man Booker Prize as the longlist is revealed Dame Hilary Mantel could win her third Booker Prize for The Mirror and the Light She won the award for Wolf Hall in 2009 and in 2012 for Bring up the Bodies There are 13-names on this year’s longlist, … Read more
Why Henry VIII was king of the lockdown and would have been only too aware of the risks posed by scourges such as the plague, reveals author Dame Hilary Mantel Dame Hilary Mantel believes life in a crisis under King Henry VIII and Thomas Cromwell would have been even tougher She explained Tudors knew more … Read more
From Hilary Mantel’s cracking The Mirror & The Light to a funny debut by Michelle Gallen and Marina Lewycka’s latest, this week’s best new fiction By Hephzibah Anderson and Amber Pearson For Event Magazine and Eithne Farry For Event Magazine Published: 22:02 BST, 29 February 2020 | Updated: 22:02 BST, 29 February 2020 The Mirror … Read more