New Statesman - <![CDATA[Hilary Mantel]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/hilary_mantel en <![CDATA[Unearthly powers. Daniel Home claimed to be able to speak with spirits, move sofas about the room and levitate out of windows. But was he a genuine master of the black arts, or just a manipulative charlatan? Hilary Mantel on Victorian Britain's strangest celebrity]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200508290030 http://www.newstatesman.com/200508290030 Mon, 29 Aug 2005 12:00:00 GMT Hilary Mantel The First Psychic: the peculiar mystery of a notorious Victorian wizard Peter Lamont Little, Brown, 318pp, £16.99 ISBN 0316728349

]]> <![CDATA[Sick notes]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200403080039 http://www.newstatesman.com/200403080039 Mon, 08 Mar 2004 12:00:00 GMT Hilary Mantel Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary Rebecca Brown Granta Books, 113pp, £10 ISBN 1862076421

]]> <![CDATA[The real princess. Marie-Antoinette has been the subject of countless biographies, but none brings her to life more fully than Chantal Thomas's vivid historical novel. By Hilary Mantel]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200401190037 http://www.newstatesman.com/200401190037 Mon, 19 Jan 2004 12:00:00 GMT Hilary Mantel Farewell, My Queen Chantal Thomas, Translated by Moishe Black Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 256pp, £9.99 ISBN 0297645501

]]> <![CDATA[Ghost writer. Compared to so many white male novelists with their vapid posturing, Toni Morrison has lost none of her power, argues Hilary Mantel]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200312080038 http://www.newstatesman.com/200312080038 Mon, 08 Dec 2003 12:00:00 GMT Hilary Mantel Love Toni Morrison Chatto & Windus, 202pp, £16.99 ISBN 0701175109

]]> <![CDATA[Although celebrity came to her only with age, Penelope Fitzgerald wrote beautifully about childhood - especially her own. Hilary Mantel remembers a greatly missed novelist and critic]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200311030039 http://www.newstatesman.com/200311030039 Mon, 03 Nov 2003 12:00:00 GMT Hilary Mantel A House of Air: selected writings Penelope Fitzgerald Flamingo, 552pp, £20 ISBN 0007136420

]]> <![CDATA[Diary - Hilary Mantel]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200307070002 http://www.newstatesman.com/200307070002 Mon, 07 Jul 2003 12:00:00 GMT Hilary Mantel The "middle way" on hunting suggested that, although it is cruel, we might do it just a bit. In the same way, the law allows us to beat children just a bit for, as it were, pest control

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