The Sunday Times bestsellerShortlisted for the Women¿s Prize for FictionLonglisted for the Booker Prize

`It is a book not read, but lived¿ Telegraph

`Her Cromwell novels are, for my money, the greatest English novels of this century¿ Observer

Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.