Hilary Mantel: 53 books

Con il romanzo storico Anna Bolena, una questione di famiglia, Hilary Mantel si è aggiudicata per la seconda volta il Man Booker Prize, tre anni dopo averlo vinto con Wolf Hall, primo romanzo della trilogia dedicata alla dinastia dei Tudor. Hilary Mantel entra nella storia: primo autore britannico...

The New York Times bestselling collection, from the Man Booker prize-winner for Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, that has been called "scintillating" (New York Times Books Review), "breathtaking" (NPR), "exquisite" (The Chicago Tribune) and "otherworldly"...

Il ritratto dell’Inghilterra dei Tudor, una decodifica, ironica e precisa, della corte inglese, un affresco storico che ha premiato la sua autrice con il Man Booker Prize 2009. Selezionato tra i migliori libri dell’anno dal “Sunday Telegraph”, dall’“Economist”, dal “Times Literary...

MIKE POULTON'S TWO-PART STAGE ADAPTATION OF HILARY MANTEL'S ACCLAIMED NOVELS WOLF HALL AND BRING UP THE BODIES Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels are the most formidable literary achievements of recent times, both recipients of the Man Booker Prize. Adapted by Mike Poulton, the plays were...

England im Jahr 1520: Das Königreich ist nur einen Pulsschlag von der Katastrophe entfernt. Sollte der König ohne männlichen Erben sterben, würde das Land durch einen Bürgerkrieg verwüstet. Henry VIII. möchte seine Ehe annullieren lassen und Anne Boleyn heiraten. Der Papst und ganz Europa sind...

Brüder< folgt drei sehr unterschiedlichen jungen Männern in die Wirren der Französischen Revolution. Da ist Georges Danton: ehrgeizig, energisch, hoch verschuldet. Maximilien Robespierre: klein, gewissenhaft und furchtsam. Und schließlich Camille Desmoulins: ein Rhetorikgenie, charmant und...

Wir alle haben Geister in unserem Leben. Es sind Facetten unserer Persönlichkeit, die wir nie realisieren konnten. Für jedes Ja stirbt ein Nein, für jeden Jungen, der geboren wird, entsteht der Geist eines Mädchens. Hilary Mantel hat sich ihren Geistern gestellt. In ihrer Autobiografie erzählt...

New York Times bestselling author Hilary Mantel, two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize, is one of the world’s most accomplished and acclaimed fiction writers. Giving Up the Ghost, is her dazzling memoir of a career blighted by physical pain in which her singular imagination supplied compensation...

Meisterliche Erzählungen von Englands größter Schriftstellerin Ein Unfall mit tödlichem Ausgang. Ein geheimnisvolles Satzzeichen. Ein aufdringlicher Besucher. Ein plötzlicher Herzstillstand. Es sind die unterschiedlichsten Dinge und Ereignisse, die Hilary Mantels Figuren aus der Lebensbahn werfen...

Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Award The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven...

“Hilary Mantel and Helen Simpson feature in the nation’s favourite annual guide to the short story, now in its fifth year …” Best British Short Stories invites you to judge a book by its cover – or more accurately, by its title. This new series aims to reprint the best short stories...

"She looked up and smiled. She had a face of feral sweetness, its color yellow; her eyes were long and dark, her mouth a taut bow, her nostrils upturned as if she were scenting the wind." In "How Shall I Know You?," a melancholic and ailing writer reluctantly travels east...

Hailed as a "writer of subtlety and depth," Hilary Mantel turns her dark genius on the world of psychics in this smart, unsettling novel (Joyce Carol Oates) A paragon of efficiency, Colette took the next natural step after finishing secretarial school by marrying a man who would do...

La storia della Rivoluzione francese attraverso la vita di tre personaggi giganteschi, Robespierre, Danton e Desmoulins, tre giovani uomini provenienti da una classe media istruita in lotta contro le proprie famiglie, contro le proprie origini, contro le regole sociali entro cui agiscono e contro...