Hilary Mantel is a British novelist, short story writer and critic
June 2022
Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, David Nicholls and more pick their favourites
Authors recommend their favourite recent reads, from addictive novels and fascinating cultural history to a game-changing graphic memoir
June 2021
Summer books: Bernardine Evaristo, Hilary Mantel, Richard Osman and more on what they’re reading
Authors share the books they have enjoyed reading this year, including a hilarious dark comedy, poetry and a study of mystery illnesses
February 2020
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel exclusive extract – hear Ben Miles read the audiobook
The Mirror & the Light by Hilary Mantel – read the exclusive first extract
November 2019
Bernardine Evaristo, Lee Child and more pick the best books of 2019
Bestselling authors and celebrities share their favourite books of the year, including fiction, poetry, cookbooks and more
February 2019
Bite-sized: 50 great short stories, chosen by Hilary Mantel, George Saunders and more
Quick and easily shared, is the short story the form for our times? Hilary Mantel, Mark Haddon and others pick their favourites
December 2018
Best books of 2018
Best books of 2018: Hilary Mantel, Yuval Noah Harari and more pick their favourites
Our favourite authors on the most outstanding books they read this year
July 2018
Best summer books 2018, as picked by writers – part one
Surrealist artists, dogged detectives, modern lovers and spies behaving badly ... leading authors pick their best books to enjoy these holidays
June 2018
What it is like to win the Booker prize, by Margaret Atwood, Hilary Mantel, Peter Carey and more
As the Man Booker prize turns 50 and readers vote for their favourite ever recipient, novelists reveal the highs (and lows) of winning ‘the Oscar’ of the literary world
The author on her frustration with Dickens, why Yeats makes her cry, and scaling Sir Walter Scott’s Peveril of the Peak
August 2017
The princess myth: Hilary Mantel on Diana
The Wolf Hall novelist on the 20th anniversary of the death of the Princess of Wales, an icon ‘only loosely based on the young woman born Diana Spencer’
June 2017
Hilary Mantel: why I became a historical novelist
‘Is this story true?’ readers invevitably ask. In the first of her BBC Reith Lectures, the double Man Booker prize-winning author explores the complicated relationship between history, fact and fiction
April 2016
My writing day
My writing day: Hilary Mantel
‘Some days I have no idea what I’ve written till I read it back. It’s a life with shocks built in’
January 2016
Elizabeth Jane Howard: Hilary Mantel on the novelist she tells everyone to read
Elizabeth Jane Howard’s exquisite and understated novels have been overshadowed by her turbulent private life. But is the real reason why they are underestimated because they are books ‘about women, by a woman’?
September 2015
Endometriosis took my fertility, and part of my self
Hilary Mantel
My life as youngest in the class: how four summer babies coped
January 2015
Hilary Mantel on the TV Wolf Hall
‘When people ask me, “Is it strange to see the people brought to life?” I think, “but when were they ever dead?” The Man Booker winner on writing her Thomas Cromwell trilogy
December 2014
Rereading
Hilary Mantel on grief
How does grief work? Your former life still seems to exist, but you can’t get back to it. You feel panic, guilt, bewilderment. Hilary Mantel reflects on a universal process, examined in many books, among them a classic by CS Lewis
November 2014
Books blog
Hilary Mantel on judging the Hilary Mantel prize
Kingston University Writing School’s new prize for short fiction is named after me, so I was invited to judge it. It’s been a bracing experience
September 2014
Hilary Mantel: The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher – August 6th 1983
