It remained for Nazi Germany to design the most satanic psychological experi ment of all time, the independent variables consisting of brutality, bestiality, physical and mental torture on an unprecedented scale. What were the effects of this massive assault on the human spirit, on man's ability to assimilate such experiences, if he survived physically? While the terror of the Nazi concentration camps has been indelibly engraved in the history of Western civilization as its most shameful c...

Now adapted into a six-part television series by the BBC and PBS MasterpieceIn inimitable style, Hilary Mantel's New York Times bestselling Wolf Hall is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston Globe).In the ruthless arena of King Henry VIII's court, one man dares to gamble his life to win the king's favor and ascend to the heights of political power.

WINNER OF THE MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONIn inimitable style, Hilary Mantel's New York Times bestselling Wolf Hall **is "a darkly brilliant reimagining of life under Henry VIII. . . . Magnificent." (The Boston Globe).The basis for the TV series on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.**England in the 1520s ...

Two of Hilary Mantel's finest novels, adapted for BBC Radio 4 - plus an exclusive short storyOne of the 21st century's most celebrated authors, Hilary Mantel won the Booker Prize twice: for 2009's Wolf Hall, the first in her phenomenally successful Thomas Cromwell trilogy, and its 2012 sequel Bring Up the Bodies. The third novel in the series, 2020's The Mirror and the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction. This collect...

Now adapted into a six-part television series by the BBC and PBS Masterpiece.The first two entries in Hilary Mantel's masterful Wolf Hall series are collected here for the first time.Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels are the most formidable literary achievements of recent times. Wolf Hall begins in England in 1527. England is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country could be destroyed by civ...

"The many listeners enthralled by the earlier two volumes in Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy will find all their expectations met in this final installment... Here is a narrative achievement of the highest order." — AudioFile Magazine, Earphones Award winner**This program is read by Ben Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company adaptation of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies*This program includes a bonus...

From the double Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel, a novel that Knits together the miraculous and the mundane, the dreadful and the ludicrous. Fludd is a tale of alchemy and transformation told with astonishing art, insight, humor, and wit.One dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd mysteriously turns up in the dismal village of Fetherhoughton. He is the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin-or is he? In the most unlikely of places...

Now adapted into a six-part television series by the BBC and PBS MasterpieceThe sequel to Wolf Hall and precursor to The Mirror and the Light, Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn."One of the greatest achievements of modern literature."—Man Booker Prize Committee

The sequel to Wolf Hall, Hilary Mantel's Man Booker Prize winner and New York Times bestseller, Bring Up the Bodies delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn.The basis for the TV show on BBC and PBS Masterpiece starring Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell.Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and h...

New York Times Book Review Notable Book of the YearLos Angeles Times Best Book of the Year“A novelist without peer in her generation . . . No reader who loves fiction should miss this opportunity to read this extraordinary work.” ―San Francisco ChronicleLondon, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien...

It's late summer, 1983. Out in the street, the world is waiting to greet Margaret Thatcher as she emerges from hospital after routine surgery. But here in this room her life is up for deadly debate… and history is holding its breath.Two people. One window. A gun. When the time comes to pull the trigger, what side of history will you be on?Based on the incendiary short story by Hilary Mantel, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher is a darkly funny and dangerously t...

Named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times Book ReviewDouble Booker Prize-winning author Hilary Mantel's magnificent novel examines the pressures on women during the early days of contemporary feminism to excel—but not be too successful—in England's complex hierarchy of class and status.It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now ...