The two-time Booker Prize-winning author was known for “Wolf Hall” and two other novels based on the life of Thomas Cromwell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2022-09-24 00:46:55 UTC ]
‘She saw and felt things us ordinary mortals missed,’ her agent says of Booker prize-winning author who died on Thursday• Hilary Mantel remembered: ‘She was the queen of literature’• ‘The pen is in our hands. A happy ending is ours to write’: Hilary Mantel in her own wordsThe Booker... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2022-09-23 11:29:23 UTC ]
Mantel was credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Huffington Post | 2022-09-23 10:42:20 UTC ]
This fictional portrait of Henry VIII’s scheming aide Thomas Cromwell — the first volume in a trilogy — won the Man Booker Prize in 2009. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2021-10-21 15:24:11 UTC ]
The best series of books in four categories — including highbrow ('Wolf Hall'), L.A. favorites (Easy Rollins) and epic histories (Taylor Branch). Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2020-04-14 16:00:13 UTC ]
Mantel’s first two installments, “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” both won the Booker Prize. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Washington Post | 2020-03-10 15:47:07 UTC ]
Fourth Estate will reissue paperback editions of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies with new jackets, ahead of the release of the eagerly-awaited final novel in the Thomas Cromwell trilogy. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-11-14 03:36:27 UTC ]
Late children’s author Mal Peet's final book, The Murdstone Trilogy (David Fickling Books), will be adapted for TV by the dramatist behind Hilary Mantel’s "Wolf Hall" for a newly formed production company. Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2019-02-07 00:00:00 UTC ]
The BBC is adapting Hilary Mantel’s novel about the French Revolution, A Place of Greater Safety, following its recent adaptation of her Man Booker Prize-winning Tudor novels, Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies (all Fourth Estate). The 1992 novel tells the story of three young men who were key... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-05-14 00:00:00 UTC ]
TV rights to Jessie Burton’s bestselling novel The Miniaturist (Picador) have been optioned by the company behind the adaptation of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall. London-based Company Pictures optioned the TV rights in a deal negotiated by Rich Green at ICM Partners on behalf of Juliet Mushens at... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2015-01-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Company Pictures, the production company behind adaptations of The White Queen and Wolf Hall, has... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2014-04-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall has climbed the Amazon charts following saturation media coverage... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2013-02-20 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel won the Man Booker prize today, making her the first woman and the first Briton to win the prize twice. Three years ago, Mantel won the prize for Wolf Hall; today, she won the prize for its sequel, Bring Up the Bodies. The trilogy is historical fiction chronicling the life of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Slate | 2012-10-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker Prize-winning novel Wolf Hall (Fourth Estate) will be turned... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Bookseller | 2012-08-23 00:00:00 UTC ]