Hilary Mantel - Complete Novels, Stories, and Non-Fiction (21 books)
HILARY MANTEL (1952–2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. She wrote 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a personal memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces. She won the Booker Prize twice for the first two novels in her Wolf Hall trilogy.
Mantel's first novel, EVERY DAY IS MOTHER'S DAY , was published in 1985, and its sequel, VACANT POSSESSION , a year later. EIGHT MONTHS ON GHAZZAH STREET (1988), a novel which drew on her life in Saudi Arabia, uses a threatening clash of values between the neighbours in a city apartment block to explore the tensions between Islamic culture and the liberal West. Her Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize-winning novel FLUDD (1989) is set in 1956 in a fictitious northern village called Fetherhoughton, centring on a Roman Catholic church and a convent, where a mysterious stranger brings about transformations in the lives of those around him.
A PLACE OF GREATER SAFETY (1992) is a long and historically accurate novel tracing the career of three French revolutionaries – Danton, Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins – from childhood to their early deaths during the Reign of Terror of 1794. A CHANGE OF CLIMATE (1994), set in rural Norfolk, explores the lives of a married couple as they raise their four children and devote their lives to charity. It includes chapters about their early married life as missionaries in South Africa, when they were imprisoned and deported to Bechuanaland, and the tragedy that occurred there.
AN EXPERIMENT IN LOVE (1996), which won the Hawthornden Prize, follows the progress of three girls as they leave home and attend university in London, exploring women's appetites and ambitions, and suggests how they are often thwarted. Her next book, THE GIANT, O'BRIEN (1998), is set in the 1780s and based on the true story of Charles Byrne who came to London to earn money by displaying himself as a freak. The novel treats O'Brien and his antagonist, the Scots surgeon John Hunter, less as characters in history than as mythic protagonists in a dark and violent fairytale, necessary casualties of the Age of Enlightenment.
In 2003, Mantel published a memoir, GIVING UP THE GHOST , and a collection of short stories, LEARNING TO TALK , all of which show how the events of a life are mediated as fiction. BEYOND BLACK (2005) features a professional medium, Alison Hart, whose calm and jolly exterior conceals grotesque psychic damage.
WOLF HALL (2009), her celebrated novel about Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, was published to critical acclaim and won that year's Booker Prize. Its sequel, BRING UP THE BODIES (2012) also won the Booker Prize. Both books were adapted into plays by the Royal Shakespeare Company and were produced as a mini-series by BBC. The third novel of the Thomas Cromwell trilogy, THE MIRROR AND THE LIGHT (2020) was also long listed for that year's Booker Prize.
THE WOLF HALL PICTURE BOOK (2022), co-authored with actor Ben Miles and photographer George Miles, explores the locations Thomas Cromwell visited and inhabited to capture the faint traces of Tudor England and his extraordinary life. Accompanied with extracts from The Wolf Hall Trilogy, some of them published for the first time, and including a new essay by Mantel, these photographs reveal a world that is shadowy, frightening, sometimes whimsical – a portrait of a country in conversation with its past.
Hilary Mantel died on September 22, 2022.
The following books are in ePUB format:
== NOVELS ==
* A Change of Climate (Picador, 2012)
* A Place of Greater Safety (Fourth Estate, 2011)
* An Experiment in Love (Picador, 2007)
* Beyond Black (HarperCollins, 2010)
* Bring up the Bodies [Wolf Hall 2] (Fourth Estate, 2012)
* Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (Fourth Estate, 2010)
* Every Day Is Mothers Day (Fourth Estate, 2010)
* Fludd (Henry Holt, 2011)
* The Giant, O'Brien (Anchor Canada, 2013)
* The Mirror & the Light [Wolf Hall 3] (Henry Holt, 2020)
* Vacant Possession (HarperCollins, 2010)
* Wolf Hall [Wolf Hall 1] (Fourth Estate, 2009)
* Wolf Hall / Bring Up the Bodies [Wolf Hall 1–2] (Fourth Estate, 2012)
== SHORT FICTION ==
* The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher (Henry Holt, 2014)
* How Shall I Know You? (Henry Holt, 2014)
* Learning to Talk (Fourth Estate, 2012)
* Learning to Talk (Henry Holt, 2022)
* The School of English (Fourth Estate, 2015)
== NON-FICTION ==
* Giving up the Ghost: A Memoir (Fourth Estate, 2010)
* Ink in the Blood: A Hospital Diary (HarperCollins, 2010)
* Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies & Other Writing from LRB (4th Estate, 2020)
* Wolf Hall Picture Book [with B. Miles & G. Miles] (Fourth Estate, 2022)
