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The novelist reclaims the story of her life and the ghosts that have come to haunt her. From childhood daydreams…
to the reality of family secrets, her father's mysterious disappearance and an adulthood blighted by medical neglect, she uncovers the losses that wrenched her from the patterns of the past and drove her to forge her own remarkable path. 2003.
This novel explores the nature of love and compassion, faith and truth, in a combination of mystery and hilarity. Fludd…
arrives in the village of Fetherhoughton proclaiming, "I have come to transform you, transformation is my business." However, in the dour North of England village, the fruits of his labour are to be hard won and frequently unusual. 1989.
A novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as…
seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists - Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution's ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends. Includes sex and strong language. 2010.
Thirty years ago, when Ralph and Anna Eldred were 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. But when Ralph falls into an affair, Anna finds no forgiveness in her heart, and thirty years of repressed rage and grief explode, destroying not only a marriage but also their love, their faith, and everything they thought they were. Some descriptions of violence. 2003, c1994.
A collection of contemporary short stories that demonstrate what modern England has become. Ranges from a ghost story to a…
vampire story to near-memoir to mini-sagas of family and social fracture. 2014.
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's reforming agenda is carried out in the grip of a self-interested parliament and a king who fluctuates between romantic passions and murderous rages. 2009 Man Booker Prize. 2009.
Collection of ten short stories by Man Booker Prize winner Mantel, author of Wolf Hall (DB 70074). In the title…
story, a narrator describes accidentally allowing an assassin into her house during a 1983 visit to her London neighborhood by Margaret Thatcher. Strong language and some violence. 2014
Thomas Cromwell, a closet Protestant and blacksmith's son who becomes advisor to Henry VIII of England, realizes that he can…
accumulate power and wealth by assisting the king in obtaining an annulment and simultaneously help commoners and his country by destroying the corrupt Catholic clergy. Booker Prize. Bestseller. 2009
Learning to Talk is a dazzling collection of short stories from the two-time winner of the Man Booker Prize and…
#1 New York Times bestselling author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy. With a new foreword by Hilary Mantel. In the wake of Hilary Mantel's brilliant conclusion to her award-winning Wolf Hall Trilogy, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood. Sharp and funny, these drawn-from-life stories begin in the 1950s in an insular northern village "scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues." For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out. In "King Billy Is A Gentleman," the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. "Curved Is the Line of Beauty" is a story of friendship, faith, and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In "Third Floor Rising," she watches, amazed, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity. With a deceptively light touch, Mantel illuminates the poignant experiences of childhood that leave each of us forever changed. "A book of her short stories is like a little sweet treat...Mantel's narrators never tell everything they know, and that's why they're worth listening to, carefully." —USA Today "Her short stories always recognize other potential realities...Even the most straightforward of Mantel's tales retain a faintly otherworldly air." —The Washington Post. A Macmillan Audio production from Henry Holt and Company.
For five years divorcée Colette has lent her business skills to professional psychic Alison, a clairvoyant beleaguered by spirits of…
the deceased. The women attempt to reinvent themselves in the English countryside, where they face material and metaphysical obstacles including nosy neighbors and ghostly adversaries. Strong language. 2005