Hilary Mantel
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Hilary Mantel

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Hilary Mantel is the author of nine previous novels, including A Change of Climate, A Place of Greater Safety, and Eight Months on Ghazzah Street. She has also written a memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Winner of the Hawthornden Prize, she reviews for The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, and the London Review of Books. She lives in England.

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    • Wolf Hall

    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Simon Slater
    • Length: 24 hrs and 14 mins
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    • Bring Up the Bodies

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    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Simon Vance
    • Length: 14 hrs and 34 mins
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    The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times best seller, Wolf Hall delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn....

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    • Perfection in story and the telling

    • By Ry Young on 09-18-12

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    • A Place of Greater Safety

    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Keeble
    • Length: 33 hrs and 52 mins
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    It is 1789, and three young provincials have come to Paris to make their way....

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    • The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher: Stories

    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Jane Carr
    • Length: 4 hrs and 29 mins
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    Ranging from a ghost story to a vampire story to a near-memoir to mini-sagas of family and social fracture....

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    • Superhuman Prose that Defies Gravity

    • By Darwin8u on 02-16-15

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    • Fludd

    • A Novel
    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Gordon Griffin
    • Length: 6 hrs and 40 mins
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    Knitting together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous, Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit....

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    • Small, tight irreverant novel that wryly inverts

    • By Darwin8u on 07-21-13

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    • A Change of Climate

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    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
    • Length: 12 hrs and 11 mins
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    Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple. But when Ralph falls into an affair, 30 years of repressed rage and grief explode....

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    • By: Hilary Mantel
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    Thomas Cromwell ist dank seiner Unterstützung für Anne Boleyn zum unangefochtenen Strippenzieher am Hofe Heinrichs VIII. aufgestiegen...

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    • Beyond Black

    • By: Hilary Mantel
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    • Length: 17 hrs and 14 mins
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    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 beloved dead ancestors....

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    • Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

    • By: Hilary Mantel
    • Narrated by: Sandra Duncan
    • Length: 10 hrs and 37 mins
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    Frances Shore is a cartographer by trade, a maker of maps, but when her husband's work takes her to Saudi Arabia she finds herself unable to map the Kingdom's areas of internal darkness....

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    • The Giant, O'Brien

    • By: Hilary Mantel
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    • Length: 6 hrs and 20 mins
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    As belief wrestles knowledge and science wrestles song, so The Giant, O'Brien calls to us from a fork in the road as a tale of time, and a timeless tale....

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    • Dark, Delightful, Disturbing

    • By Maestro F on 11-09-18

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