RSC to stage Mantel novels

Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are to... Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2013-01-23 00:00:00 UTC ]
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