About Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mary Mantel CBE, née Thompson, is an English novelist, short story writer and critic. Her work, ranging in subject from personal memoir to historical fiction, has been short-listed for major literary awards. In 2009, she won the Man Booker Prize for her novel Wolf Hall.
Novels
Every Day Is Mother's Day (1985)
Vacant Possession (1986)
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988)
Fludd (1989)
A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
A Change of Climate (1994)
An Experiment in Love (1995)
The Giant, O'Brien (1998)
Beyond Black (2005)
Vacant Possession (1986)
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (1988)
Fludd (1989)
A Place of Greater Safety (1992)
A Change of Climate (1994)
An Experiment in Love (1995)
The Giant, O'Brien (1998)
Beyond Black (2005)
Collections
Novellas
Comma (2011)
Curved is the Line of Beauty (2011)
King Billy is a Gentleman (2011)
Learning to Talk - short story (2011)
Third Floor Rising (2011)
Curved is the Line of Beauty (2011)
King Billy is a Gentleman (2011)
Learning to Talk - short story (2011)
Third Floor Rising (2011)
Non fiction
Awards
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Hilary Mantel recommends
 The Dark (1965) John McGahern "One of the greatest writers of our era." |  Newton's Niece (1994) Derek Beaven "An important and original writer... a wonderfully capacious and vivid book." |  Trespass (1998) D J Taylor "Painfully funny... The product of a mature and original talent." | |
 The Curewife (2003) Claire-Marie Watson "A story of subtlety and dark intrigue told with immense skill." |  The Hamilton Case (2003) Michelle de Kretser "A mesmeric study of a family, a scandal and a murder, set in Ceylon in the 1930s. " |  Wild Boy (2003) Jill Dawson "Dawson's prose is graceful, her approach deeply intelligent and persuasive...a fine novel." | |
 The Amnesia Clinic (2006) James Scudamore "A wonderful debut - witty, polished, fluent and effortlessly entertaining." |  Loving Mephistopheles (2007) Miranda Miller "An epic narrative full of energy, with the wild and joyful inventiveness of an Angela Carter story. Enjoyable and ingenious." |  Cheating at Canasta (2007) William Trevor "Trevor is a master of both language and storytelling." | |
 Blackmoor (2008) Edward Hogan "Ed's voice is utterly distinctive: strong, emotive, haunting. His powers of observation seem almost supernatural. I am struck by the careful, line-by-line craftsmanship of the writing, as well as the bold design of the whole. What I notice is how he sets the tone and keeps to it - it's quite rare to find such resolution and clarity of purpose in a first novel." |  Touching Distance (2008) Rebecca Abrams "Evokes beautifully a revolutionary world - science and politics in upheaval, the casualties strewn around." |  Glister (2008) John Burnside "A master of language." | |
 The Golden Mean (2009) Annabel Lyon "One of the most convincing historical novels I have ever read. Lyon makes her reader avid for every detail of this strange world." |  Saving Rafael (2009) Leslie Wilson "I found Saving Rafael completely gripping. Leslie Wilson is a great natural storyteller, and the background of wartime Berlin is absorbing and totally convincing." |  Pictures of Lily (2010) Matthew Yorke "Distinctive, energetic... the narrative takes a real grip." | |
 Savage Lands (2010) Clare Clark "Vigorous and intense, energetic and absorbing... An extraordinary feat of imagination." |  Girl Reading (2011) Katie Ward "A debut of rare individuality and distinction." |  Obedience (2011) Jacqueline Yallop "An intensely imagined novel about one of the defining questions of the century just past: where and how we choose to draw the line between innocence and guilt, ignorance and complicity. Obedience also asks us to consider what ghastly harm is committed in the name of love. It's rare to find a book that is seemingly so simple, but is really ambiguous and thought-provoking." | |
 The Emperor of Lies (2011) Steve Sem-Sandberg "Fiction of true moral force, brilliantly sustained and achieved... stunning." |  The Champion (2011) Tim Binding "A chilling portrait of provincial egos on the loose. Shamefully entertaining." |  The Sister (2012) Lynne Alexander "Warm and accomplished." | |
 The Lifeboat (2012) Charlotte Rogan "What a splendid book. It rivets the reader's attention, and at the same time it seethes with layered ambiguity." |
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