Hilary Mantel
Beyond Black
By: Hilary Mantel
Alison Hart is a psychic who is tormented by her spirit guide, a nasty, clownish little creature named Morris who is visible only to Alison. Her life is enlivened, however, by her assistant, Colette, a divorc'e who’s been through the mill and...
Published: Apr 2006
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 432
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
By: Hilary Mantel
When Frances Shore moves to Saudi Arabia, she settles in a nondescript sublet, sure that common sense and an open mind will serve her well with her Muslim neighbors. But in the dim, airless flat, Frances spends lonely days writing in her diary,...
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 288
A Change of Climate
By: Hilary Mantel
Ralph and Anna Eldred are an exemplary couple, devoting themselves to doing good. Thirty years ago as missionaries in Africa, the worst that could happen did. Shattered by their encounter with inexplicable evil, they returned to England, never to...
Published: Sep 2003
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 336
A Place of Greater Safety
By: Hilary Mantel
Mantel’s three protagonists--Danton, Robespierre, and Desmoulins--were important figures in the French Revolution. Mantel brings them to life and tells the stories of their relationships with each other as well as with their wives, families,...
Published: Nov 2006
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Pages: 768
An Experiment in Love
By: Hilary Mantel
Carmel McBain is born to an Irish Catholic, working-class mother. But her mother wants more than a life of drudgery for Carmel. She enrolls Carmel at a local convent school, and persuades her to take entrance exams for London University. And while...
Published: Jun 2007
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 256
Every Day Is Mother's Day
By: Hilary Mantel
Stephen King meets Muriel Spark in Hilary Mantel's first novel.Evelyn Axona-medium by trade-and her half-wit daughter Muriel have become a social problem. Barricaded in their once-respectable house, they live amid festering rubbish, unhealthy...
Published: Aug 2010
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 224
Fludd
By: Hilary Mantel
In 1956, a mysterious stranger named Fludd, supposedly the curate sent by the bishop to assist Father Angwin, turns up in the superstitious English village of Fetherhoughton, where a a series of unusual events begins to occur. Reprint.
Published: Jun 2000
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 181
Giving Up the Ghost : A Memoir (John MacRae Books)
By: Hilary Mantel
In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including 'chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay,' were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to...
Published: Sep 2004
Genre: Biography & Autobiography - Literary
Pages: 223
The Giant, O'Brien
By: Hilary Mantel
A New York Times Book ReviewNotable Book of the Year A Los Angeles Times Best Book of the Year London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant,...
Published: Jun 2007
Genre: Fiction - Literary
Pages: 208
Wolf Hall
By: Hilary Mantel
WINNER OF THE 2009 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD FOR FICTIONA NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLEREngland in the 1520s is a heartbeat from disaster. If the king dies without a male heir, the country...
Published: Aug 2010
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Pages: 592
Bring Up the Bodies: A Novel (John MacRae Books)
By: Hilary Mantel
WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year byThe New York Times Book Review • The Washington Post• Publishers WeeklyNamed a...
Published: Apr 2013
Genre: Fiction - Historical - General
Pages: 480
Vacant Possession
By: Hilary Mantel
A dark and uproarious tale of revenge.Ten years have passed since Muriel Axon did her ma in, ten years of living in a mental asylum. But Muriel has not forgotten her welfare worker, Isabel, or her neighbor, Colin. Nor has she forgiven. There...
Published: Aug 2010
Genre: Fiction - General
Pages: 240