Hilary Mantel

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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

  • 29 August 2005

The First Psychic: the peculiar mystery of a notorious Victorian wizard Peter Lamont Little, Brown, 318pp, £16.99 ISBN 0316728349

Sick notes

  • 08 March 2004

Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary Rebecca Brown Granta Books, 113pp, £10 ISBN 1862076421

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

  • 19 January 2004

Farewell, My Queen Chantal Thomas, Translated by Moishe Black Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 256pp, £9.99 ISBN 0297645501

Ghost writer. Compared to so many white male novelists with their vapid posturing, Toni Morrison has lost none of her power, argues Hilary Mantel

  • 08 December 2003

Love Toni Morrison Chatto & Windus, 202pp, £16.99 ISBN 0701175109

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

  • 03 November 2003

A House of Air: selected writings Penelope Fitzgerald Flamingo, 552pp, £20 ISBN 0007136420

Diary - Hilary Mantel

  • 07 July 2003

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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