Hilary Mantel

Inglaterra, en 1520, está a un paso del desastre. El rey Enrique VIII no consigue engendrar un heredero varón y quiere divorciarse de su mujer, Catalina de Aragón, para casarse con Ana Bolena, pero el cardenal Wolsey, su principal asesor, no obtiene mas que negativas del papa. En este clima de desconfianza y necesidad llega a la corte Thomas Cromwell, al principio como segundo de Wolsey y mas tarde como su sucesor. Cromwell es un hombre con una trayectoria original: hijo de un herrero que le trataba con gran brutalidad, llega a ser un genio politico, sobornador, encantador y fanfarron, y con una delicada y mortifera habilidad para manipular los hechos y las personas. Implacable en la consecucion de sus propios intereses, es tan exigente con los demas como lo es consigo mismo. Su programa de reformas tiene que abrirse camino entre un parlamento que solo vela por los intereses de sus miembros y un rey que fluctua entre las pasiones romanticas y las pulsiones asesinas.La novela mas apasionante que puedas leer. The Times

El gran espectáculo de la Inglaterra de los Tudor. Un fascinante desfile de deseos, ambiciones y sentimientosAño 1520. Inglaterra está a un paso del desastre. El rey Enrique VIII no consigue engendrar un heredero varon y quiere divorciarse de su mujer para casarse con Ana Bolena, pero el cardenal Wolsey, su principal asesor, no obtiene mas que negativas del papa. En este clima de desconfianza y necesidad llega a la corte Thomas Cromwell. Su programa de reformas tiene que abrirse camino entre un parlamento que solo vela por los intereses de sus miembros y un rey que fluctua entre las pasiones romanticas y las pulsiones asesinas.

From one of Britains most accomplished, acclaimed, and garlanded writers, Hilary Mantel delivers a brilliant collection of contemporary short stories that demonstrate what modern England has become.In The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, Hilary Mantels trademark gifts of penetrating characterization, unsparing eye, and rascally intelligence are once again fully on display.Her classic wicked humor in each storywhich range from a ghost story to a vampire story to near-memoir to mini-sagas of family and social fracturebrilliantly unsettles the reader in that unmistakably Mantel way.Mantel brutally and acutely writes about gender, marriage, class, family, and sex, cutting to the core of human experience. Unpredictable, diverse, and even shockingly unexpected, each story grabs you by the throat within a couple of sentences. The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher displays a magnificent writer at the peak of her powers.

Sequel to WOLF HALL, the story of the downfall of Anne Boleyn, second wife of Henry VIII of England. Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012

Alison Hart, médium de oficio, viaja por los suburbios de la carretera decircunvalación de Londres con su despiadada ayudante, Colette, transmitiendo mensajes de antepasados difuntos. Sin embargo, tras el personaje rechoncho y risueño, se esconde una mujer desesperada; la vida del mas alla depara angustias que se ve obligada a ocultar a sus clientes, y sus propios amaneceresestan asediados por los espiritus de los hombres de su pasado. Se entrometen en su casa, su cuerpo y su alma, y cuanto mas se empeña en deshacerse de ellos, mas fuerza y maldad cobran.

A brilliant collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Hilary Mantel is one of Britain's most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday facades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the bushes in 'Comma nurses clash in 'Harley Street' over something more than professional differences; and in the title story, staying in for the plumber turns into an ambiguous and potentially deadly waiting game. Whether set in a claustrophobic Saudi Arabian flat or on a precarious mountain road in Greece, these stories share an insight into the darkest recesses of the spirit. Displaying all of Mantel's unmistakable style and wit, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers.

England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolseys clerk, and later his successor. Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events. Ruthless in pursuit of his own interests, he is as ambitious in his wider politics as he is for himself. His reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. From one of our finest living writers, Wolf Hall that very rare thing: a truly great English novel, one that explores the intersection of individual psychology and wider politics. With a vast array of characters, and richly overflowing with incident, it peels back history to show us Tudor England as a half-made society, moulding itself with great passion and suffering and courage.

'Lock Cromwell in a deep dungeon in the morning,' says Thomas More, 'and when you come back that night he'll be sitting on a plush cushion eating larks' tongues, and all the gaolers will owe him money.'England, the 1520s. Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.Cromwell is a wholly original man: the son of a brutal blacksmith, a political genius, a briber, a charmer, a bully, a man with a delicate and deadly expertise in manipulating people and events.

A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light 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.

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.