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A Change of Climate by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction
From the violent townships of South Africa to the windswept countryside of Norfolk, this is an epic yet subtle family saga about what happens when trust is broken, when secrets are buried and when lives must be torn apart before they can be put back together again. Ralph and Anna Eldred live in the big ...Show more
A Grief Observed - Readers' Edition by C. S. Lewis; Jenna Bailey; Maureen Freely; Hilary Mantel; Jessica Martin; Kate Saunders; Francis Spufford; Rowan Williams
Category: Personal Development
In April 1956, C.S. Lewis, author of The Chronicles of Narnia, married Joy Davidman, an American poet with two small children. After four intensely happy years, Davidman died of cancer and Lewis found himself alone again, and inconsolable. In response, he wrote this journal, freely confessing his pain, ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self - A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
Category: Biography
'A guide to the mind of one of the great English novelists of the last half-century' Guardian 'Like hearing the voice of an old friend' Observer 'Extraordinary . . . a quality of timelessness and prescience' New Statesman, Book of the Year 'Magical . . . Here we meet not just Mantel the Cromwell-catc ...Show more
A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing by Hilary Mantel
Category: Biography
'I breathed in stories, as soon as I breathed in air. Sometimes I think I wasn't born, but I just came out of an ink blot.' As well as her celebrated career as a novelist, Hilary Mantel long contributed to newspapers and journals, unspooling stories from her own life and illuminating the world as she f ...Show more
A Place Of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction | Series: 4th Estate Matchbook Classics Ser.
An extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. One of the ten books - novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography - that make up the 4th Estate Matchbook Classics' series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titl ...Show more
A Place of Greater Safety by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction
From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmouli ...Show more
A Place of Greater Safety by MANTEL HILARY
Category: Fiction
It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way. Georges-Jacques Danton, an ambitious young lawyer, is energetic, pragmatic, debt-ridden--and hugely but erotically ugly. Maximilien Robespierre, also a lawyer, is slight, diligent, and terrified of violence. His dearest friend ...Show more
An Experiment in Love by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction
It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina and Julianne were escaping the dreary north for a London University hall of residence. Awaiting them was a winter of new preoccupations
BRING UP THE BODIES by MANTEL HILARY
Category: Fiction
Winner of the Man Booker Prize 2012 Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year Shortlisted for the 2013 Women's Prize for Fiction 'Simply exceptional...I envy anyone who hasn't yet read it' Daily Mail 'A gripping story of tumbling fury and terror' Independent on Sunday With this historic win for Bri ...Show more
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction | Series: The Perennial Collection
Reprinted as part of the Perennial Collection of Prizewinners, Bestsellers and Modern Classics. An hilarious and sinister tale of dark secrets and secret forces in suburban England from the critically-acclaimed author of 'Giving Up the Ghost'. Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, a ...Show more
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction | Series: Collins Modern Classics Ser.
Introducing the Collins Modern Classics, a series featuring some of the most significant books of recent times, books that shed light on the human experience - classics which will endure for generations to come. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road wit ...Show more
Beyond Black by Hilary Mantel
Category: Fiction | Series: The\Perennial Collection
A comically sinister tale of wicked spirits and suburban mediums from the Man Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'. Alison Hart, a medium by trade, tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital ring road with her flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, passing on messages from b ...Show more