Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, black
Number of Pages: 432
Published: 2006-04-18
List price: $16.00
ISBN-10: 0312426054
ISBN-13: 9780312426057

A New York Times Notable Book of the Year Colette and Alison are unlikely cohorts: one a shy, drab beanpole of an assistant, the other a charismatic, corpulent psychic whose connection to the spiritual world torments her. When they meet at a fair, Alison invites Colette at once to join her on the road as her personal assistant and companion. Troubles spiral out of control when the pair moves to a suburban wasteland in what was once the English countryside. It is not long before the place beyond black threatens to uproot their lives forever. This is Hilary Mantel at her finest--insightful, dar

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Holt Paperbacks
Keywords: novel, fludd
Number of Pages: 181
Published: 2000-06-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0805062734
ISBN-13: 9780805062731

One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places, a superstitious town that understands little of romance or sentimentality, where bad blood between neighbors is ancient and impenetrable, miracles begin to bloom. No matter how copiously Father Angwin drinks while he confesses his broken faith, the level of the bottle does not drop. Although Fludd does not appear to be eating, the food on his plate disappears. Fludd becomes

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, safety, greater, place
Number of Pages: 768
Published: 2006-11-14
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 0312426399
ISBN-13: 9780312426392

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, Camille Desmoulins, is a conspirator and pamphleteer of genius. A charming gadfly, erratic and untrustworthy, bisexual and beautiful, Camille is obsessed by one woman and engaged to marry another, her daughter. In the swells of revolution, they each taste the addictive delights of power, and t

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Henry Holt and Co.
Keywords: booker, prize, man, novel, hall, wolf
Number of Pages: 560
Published: 2009-10-13
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 0805080686
ISBN-13: 9780805080681

In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII’s court, only one man dares to gamble his life to win the king’s favor and ascend to the heights of political powerEngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civil war. Henry VIII wants to annul his marriage of twenty years, and marry Anne Boleyn. The pope and most of Europe opposes him. The quest for the king’s freedom destroys his adviser, the brilliant Cardinal Wolsey, and leaves a power vacuum. Into this impasse steps Thomas Cromwell. Cromwell is a wholly original

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, love, experiment
Number of Pages: 256
Published: 2007-06-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312426879
ISBN-13: 9780312426873

 A New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the Year It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the dreary English countryside for a London University hall of residence. Interspersing accounts of her current position as a university student with recollections of her childhood and an ever difficult relationship with her longtime schoolmate Karina, Carmel reflects on a generation of girls desiring the power of men, but fearful of abandoning what is expected and proper. When these bright

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, climate, change
Number of Pages: 336
Published: 2003-09-01
List price: $15.00
ISBN-10: 0312422881
ISBN-13: 9780312422882

Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as 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.

Author: Hilary Mantel
Publisher: Picador
Keywords: novel, brien, giant
Number of Pages: 208
Published: 2007-06-12
List price: $14.00
ISBN-10: 0312426887
ISBN-13: 9780312426880

A New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O’Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in myths, fairies, miracles, and little people. He has come from Ireland to exhibit his size for money. O’Brien’s opposite is a man of science, the famed anatomist John Hunter, who lusts after the Giant’s corpse as a medical curiosity, a boon to the advancement of scientific knowledg