Hilary Mantel

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  • Bibliography:
    16 Books (1 Series)
  • First Book:
    June 1988
  • Latest Book:
    June 2022
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About the Author

Hilary Mantel is the bestselling author of ten previous novels, including Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction, Among her novels are A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. The winner of the 2006 Hawthornden Prize, her reviews and essays have appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. Mantel lives in England with her husband.

Dame Hilary Mantel died on September 22, 2022, she was 70.

Full Series List in Order

Anne Boleyn

1 - Wolf Hall (Oct-2009)
2 - Bring Up the Bodies (May-2012)
3 - The Mirror & the Light (Mar-2020)

Book List in Order: 16 titles

  • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

    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...

  • A Place of Greater Safety

    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, hu...

  • A Change of Climate

    A New York Times Notable BookRalph 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 retu...

  • An Experiment in Love

    A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearIt was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the dreary English countryside for a London Univ...

  • The Giant, O'Brien

    New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearLos Angeles Times Best Book of the YearLondon, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, ...

  • Every Day Is Mother's Day

    Stephen King meets Muriel Spark in Hilary Mantel's first novel.Evelyn Axon - a medium by trade - and her half-wit daughter Muriel have become a social problem. Barricaded in their once-respectable house, they live amid festering rubbish, unhealthy sm...

  • Vacant Possession

    Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon was locked away for society's protection, but psychiatric confinement has only increased her malice and ingenuity. At last free, she sets into motion an intricate plan to exact revenge on those who had her put ...

  • Beyond Black

    A New York Times Notable Book of the Year

    Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her. When they meet at a...

  • Wolf Hall

    Anne Boleyn - 1

    In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power England in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, t...



  • Bring Up the Bodies

    Anne Boleyn - 2

    Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and her sharp intelligence and audacious will alienate his old friends and the noble families of England. When the discarded Kath...

  • How Shall I Know You?

    "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 rel...

  • The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories

    One of the most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary stories In "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher," Hilary Mantel's trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, uns...

  • The Mirror & the Light

    Anne Boleyn - 3

    “If you cannot speak truth at a beheading, when can you speak it?” England, May 1536. Anne Boleyn is dead, decapitated in the space of a heartbeat by a hired French executioner. As her remains are bundled into oblivion, Thomas Cromwell breakfa...

  • Learning to Talk: Stories

    A dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Booker Prize and #1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall trilogy.In the wake of Hilary Mantel’s brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, Learni...

  • Fludd

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    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 u...

  • Giving Up The Ghost

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    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 wh...

Award-Winning Books by Hilary Mantel

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories
2015 Audies -- Short Story Collection
Bring Up the Bodies
2012 Costa Book Award -- Book of the Year
2012 Costa Book Award -- Novel
2012 Man Booker Prize -- Novel
2013 Audies -- Literary Fiction
Wolf Hall
2009 Man Booker Prize -- Novel
2009 National Book Critics Circle Award -- Fiction
2010 Audies -- Literary Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Hilary Mantel has published 16 books.

Hilary Mantel does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Learning to Talk: Stories, was published in June 2022.

The first book by Hilary Mantel, Eight Months on Ghazzah Street, was published in June 1988.

Yes. Hilary Mantel has 1 series.
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