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Hilary Mantel
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Listen to the long-awaited sequel to Wolf Hall, and Bring Up the Bodies. This exclusive unabridged audiobook is narrated by Ben Miles, personally cast by Hilary Mantel to bring to life the stunning conclusion to her Booker Prize-winning Thomas Cromwell trilogy. 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 breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad, and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him?
By 1535 Thomas Cromwell is Chief Minister to Henry VIII, his fortunes having risen with those of Anne Boleyn, the king's new wife. But Anne has failed to give the king an heir, and Cromwell watches as Henry falls for plain Jane Seymour. Cromwell must find a solution that will satisfy Henry, safeguard the nation and secure his own career. But neither minister nor king will emerge unscathed from the bloody theatre of Anne's final Days. An astounding literary accomplishment, Bring Up the Bodies is the story of this most terrifying moment of history, by one of our greatest living novelists.
The Sunday Times bestseller Shortlisted for the Women's Prize for Fiction Longlisted for the Booker Prize 'It is a book not read, but lived' Telegraph 'Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century' Observer
The Mirror & the Light
Hilary Mantel
Thorndike Press Large Print
2020
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"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 breakfasts with the victors. The blacksmith's son from Putney emerges from the spring's bloodbath to continue his climb to power and wealth, while his formidable master, Henry VIII, settles to short-lived happiness with his third queen before Jane dies giving birth to the male heir he most craves. Cromwell is a man with only his wits to rely on; he has no great family to back him, no private army. Despite rebellion at home, traitors plotting abroad and the threat of invasion testing Henry's regime to the breaking point, Cromwell's robust imagination sees a new country in the mirror of the future. But can a nation, or a person, shed the past like a skin? Do the dead continually unbury themselves? What will you do, the Spanish ambassador asks Cromwell, when the king turns on you, as sooner or later he turns on everyone close to him? With The Mirror & the Light, Hilary Mantel brings to a triumphant close the trilogy she began with Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. She traces the final years of Thomas Cromwell, the boy from nowhere who climbs to the heights of power, offering a defining portrait of predator and prey, of a ferocious contest between present and past, between royal will and a common man's vision: of a modern nation making itself through conflict, passion, and courage.
Mantel Pieces : Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books
Hilary Mantel
UKBooks
2020
Kovakantinen
A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor, Karl Miller, ’I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.’ This collection of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain’s last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, ’Royal Bodies’, which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman. Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.
Cromwell-sarjan ihailijoiden odotus palkitaan: trilogian kolmas osa ilmestyy kesällä! Englanti, toukokuu 1536. Thomas Cromwell, köyhän sepän poika, on päässyt pitkälle. Henrik VIII:n tärkeimpänä avustajana hän on kartuttanut omaisuuttaan ja valtaansa. Kuningas on jäänyt kaksi kertaa leskeksi. Kolmas vaimo Jane Seymour antaa kuninkaalle jakamattoman huomionsa, ja kruununperijäprinssiä odotetaan kuumeisesti. Silloinkin, kun vainoharhainen kuningas ilmoittaa haluavansa olla yksin, hän kutsuu Cromwellin luokseen väittelemään kanssaan tai vain heittämään noppaa. Lordi Cromwellin maailmassa on nyt kolmenlaisia ihmisiä: niitä, jotka käyttävät hänen oikeaa arvonimeään, hännystelijöitä ja kaunankantajia. Maailmassa on levottomuuksia, mutta maan hallinnon on jatkuttava. Mutta pystyykö kokonainen kansakunta tai yksi ihminen luomaan nahkansa uudestaan?
Now a major TV series Winner of the Man Booker Prize The second book in Hilary Mantelâ??s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a stunning new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light
Now a major TV series Winner of the Man Booker Prize The first book in Hilary Mantelâ??s award-winning Wolf Hall trilogy, with a new cover design to celebrate the publication of the much anticipated The Mirror and the Light
Broderskap är den tredje och avslutande delen av Mantels revolutionsroman, efter de inledande Frihet och Jämlikhet. Vi får följa hennes tre huvudpersoner Robespierre, Danton och Desmoulins fram till schavotten och Dantons berömda ord: Visa upp mitt huvud for folket. Det tål att tittas på. Efter den franska revolutionen var världen en annan, men Mantel intresserar sig framför allt för de unga människor som ledde den. Vilka var de? Hur tänkte de? Hur levde de? Hilary Mantel skrev romanen om den franska revolutionen som mycket ung, men fick sitt enorma genombrott i hemlandet och världen med romanerna om Thomas Cromwell och Henrik VIII. På svenska finns också hennes självbiografi Skuggan av ett liv och novellsamlingen Mordet på Margaret Thatcher. Frihet och Jämlikhet ges samtidigt med Broderskap ut i pocket.
Hans Holbein's famous portrayal of Sir Thomas More is one of the artist's greatest and most popular portraits. In the opening piece of this appealing new volume, "A Letter to Thomas More, Knight", award-winning author Hilary Mantel vividly imagines the background to the creation of this extraordinary portrait, giving it both historical perspective and immediacy. An insightful, concise, scholarly essay by Xavier Salomon grounds it in the art-historical world. Hans Holbein (1497/98-1543) painted Sir Thomas More in 1527, having been a guest in More's house when he first arrived in England. He brilliantly renders his sitter's rich fabrics and unshaven face with sympathy and perception. Frick Diptychs, a new series of small books to be co-published by GILES with The Frick Collection, New York, pairs masterworks from the Frick with critical and literary essays. The novelist Hilary Mantel will be followed by the filmmaker James Ivory on Vermeer's "Mistress and Maid" and the artist and author Edmund de Waal on a pair of porcelain and bronze candlesticks by the 18th-century French metalworker Pierre Gouthiere.
Jämlikhet, del 2 av Hilary Mantels stora revolutionsroman, börjar på revolutionens andra dag, 15 juli 1789. Bastiljen är stormad Danton, Robespierre och Demoulins träder fram på allvar. Tre år av maktkamp, tre år av agitation, tre år av uppladdning inför den stora terrorn. Frankrike skakar och en ny ordning bryter fram i Europa. Mantel skildrar revolutionen och revolutionärerna i skoningslös närbild.
Jag valde att skriva om Franska revolutionen, eftersom jag tyckte att det var det mest överraskande och intressanta som hänt i hela världshistorien. Hilary Mantel var bara 22 år när hon tog sig an detta storslagna ämne för sin stora roman Frihet, Jämlikhet och Broderskap, vars första del nu kommer ut på svenska. Hon skrev den i en tid när vänsterrörelsen fyllde gatorna i hela Europa, men hon valde sitt alldeles egna perspektiv: vilka var de, egentligen, de här franska revolutionärerna. Hemma hos sig? Med sina fruar och barn? Hilary Mantel har sedan dess vunnit världsberömmelse med sina romaner om Thomas Cromwell och Henrik VIII. Sin skarpa blick för historien hade hon redan från början, det visar denna mäktiga romansvit.
Yksitoista Hilary Mantelin ennen suomentamatonta novellia todistavat historiallisten romaanien kirjoittajan taidoista myös tarkkanäköisenä nykymaailman kuvaajana. Mantelilla on silmää groteskeille yksityiskohdille sekä ihmisen vinolle kasvulle, puutteille ja heikkouksille. Ulkopuolisuuden ja irrallisuuden tuntu, väärinkäsitykset ja erilaiset absurdeiksi äityvät tilanteet toistuvat. Niminovellissa nainen avaa ulko-oven miehelle, jota luulee putkimieheksi. Tämä osoittautuukin IRA:n salamurhaajaksi, joka haluaa majoittua keittiöön väijyäkseenviereisessä sairaalassa toipuvaa pääministeri Thatcheriä. Eräässä novellissa lukukeikalle kutsuttu kirjailija päätyy parhaat päivänsä nähneeseen maaseutukaupungin hotelliin, jossapääosan varastaa eriskummallinen henkilökunta. Avauskertomuksessa miehensä työn takia Saudi-Arabiassa elävä brittinainen hakee ankeaan arkeensa piristystä tutustumallapakistanilaismieheen ja tämän perheeseen - ja hullusti käy. Musta huumori ja poliittinen pelisilmä ovat Hilary Mantelia parhaimmillaan: lukija saa hymyillä, tosin välillä kyynelten läpi. Loistavasta suomennoksesta vastaa Kaisa Sivenius.
The BBC National Short Story Award 2016
Lavinia Greenlaw; Hilary Mantel; Tahmima Anam; Claire-Louise Bennett; K. J. Orr
Comma Press
2016
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One of the most prestigious awards for the short story has reached its eleventh year. Hugely successful, the BBC National Short Story Award, in partnership with Booktrust, awards 15,000 to the winning author, with 3000 going to the runner-up."