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

Fidel Castro

The last revolutionary

The last revolutionary

Steve Richards

On Tory policy

Our future in their hands

James Macintyre

Miliband's dilemma

Brussels is back with a vengeance

Will Self

On Oscar Wilde

Where the Wilde things are

Science

Religion and Darwin

Since the dawn  of time

Film review

Bright Star

Bright Star (PG)

Books

Paul Auster

Invisible

Interview

Alain de Botton

The Books Interview: Alain de Botton

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