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About Hilary Mantel

Dame Hilary Mary Mantel ( man-TEL; born Thompson; 6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022) was a British writer whose work includes historical fiction, personal memoirs and short stories. Her first published novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, was released in 1985. She went on to write 12 novels, two collections of short stories, a memoir, and numerous articles and opinion pieces.

Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: the first was for her 2009 novel Wolf Hall, a fictional account of Thomas Cromwell's rise to power in the court of Henry VIII, and the second was for its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third installment of the Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror & the Light, was longlisted for the same prize. The trilogy has gone on to sell more than 5 million copies.

Hilary Mantel writes about Fiction, Fiction, historical, New York Times reviewed, Fiction, historical, general, Large type books, and History. Their best-known work is Bring Up the Bodies.

On FindMyTBR we track 26 books by Hilary Mantel, 25 of them confirmed as audiobooks on Spotify or Apple Books — including A Change of Climate, A Memoir of My Former Self, and A Place of Greater Safety. Full availability across Spotify, Apple Books, Audible, and Amazon is below.