Hilary Mantel: 53 books

The story of three young provincials of no great heritage who together helped to destroy a way of life and, in the process, destroyed themselves: Camille Desmoulins, bisexual and beautiful, charming, erratic, untrustworthy; Georges Jacques Danton, hugely but erotically ugly, a brilliant pragmatist...

‘I often ask myself what makes a story work,’ wrote the great American author, Flannery O’Connor. ‘I have decided that it is probably some action, some gesture of a character... which is both totally right and totally unexpected... one that is both in character and beyond character.’ The...

One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality,...

A New York Times Notable Book Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to speak of it again....

Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London's West End and on Broadway, Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies bring history to life for a whole new audience having now been adapted into a six-part television series by the BBC and PBS Masterpiece. England in the 1520s...

他不是魔鬼的代言人，但魔鬼也攔不住他； 他不過是個無名小卒，但他卻是天生贏家。 宮廷就是他的競技場，罪惡是力量的來源； 然而只要走錯一小步，就有可能萬劫不復… ★ 2009年曼布克獎得獎小說 ★ 2009年全美書評人小說獎 南方朔（文化評論家）專文推薦 李若庸（國立臺北大學歷史學系副教授）專文導讀 亨利八世的宮廷猶如一個殘忍無情的競技場，只有一個人敢以自己的生命為賭注，以博取國王的寵愛，進而步步高升，登上權力的顛峰。 一五二○年代的英格蘭，災禍一觸即發。英王亨利八世與凱瑟琳王后結褵已十數年，但膝下始終沒有男性繼承人。亨利八世開始擔心，英格蘭在未來會為了繼承權問題而引發內戰。此時，宮廷內出現一位年輕女子，工於心計的她，把亨利八世迷得神魂顛倒。樞機主教沃爾西為了國王的離婚案費盡心思，百般週旋，卻始終無法突破僵局，最後遭到罷黜、含恨而終。出身寒微的克倫威爾趁勢而起，他足智多謀、鐵石心腸、不擇手段，精力旺盛得像魔鬼。 然而，亨利八世卻是個生性反覆無常的君王。在那差之毫釐，失之千里，一小步錯就可能人頭落地的時代，克倫威爾該如何在腥風血雨的宮廷中求生？ 各界佳評如潮： ★2009年曼布克獎得獎小說 ★2009年全美書評人小說獎 ★2010年柑橘獎決選 ★2010年英國柯斯塔文學獎決選 ★2010年英國華特．史考特歷史小說獎 ★2009年美國Amazon網路書店年度十大好書 ★2009年美國《紐約時報》年度編輯選書Top...

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A taut and terrifying trip into a distorting mirror--a novel as tense, immediate, and chilling as the world it depicts. "A Middle Eastern Turn of the Screw with an insidious power to grip."-Time Out

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Una mujer británica de mediana edad acompaña a su esposo ingeniero en una estancia laboral en Jeddah, Arabia Saudí. Desde su llegada, la total privación de derechos de las mujeres afectará su intimidad y su relación con los demás expatriados. Además, un misterio que tendrá lugar en un piso...

Carmel McBain es la única hija de un matrimonio de clase obrera católico-irlandés. Su madre aspira a una vida mejor para ella, lejos de lo que su pequeño y deprimido pueblo puede ofrecer. Así, anima a Carmel a conseguir una beca para estudiar en la escuela local y más adelante a optar a una...