Hilary Mantel
Articles by 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
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Sick notes
- 08 March 2004
Excerpts from a Family Medical Dictionary
Rebecca Brown Granta Books, 113pp, £10
ISBN 1862076421
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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
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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
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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
