The Latest Breaking News from Hilary Mantel

Elizabeth Strout: ‘It’s a tough thing to be creative and have children’

INTERVIEW: After Olive Kitteridge and Lucy Barton, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author is back with a brand new protagonist in her 11th novel, ‘The Things We Never Say’. The chronicler of small-town despair, loved by Hilary Mantel and Zadie Smith, tells Jessie Thompson why her books are so full of loneliness…

The Independent UK · May 12

Sarah Hall: ‘Everyone wangs on about Anna Karenina – I’ve never been able to finish it’

The author on being inspired by Michael Ondaatje and how Hilary Mantel helped her overcome her aversion to historical figure novels

The Guardian - UK · Apr 3

Maggie O’Farrell and fellow judges award inaugural Hilary Mantel prize for fiction

Anna Dempsey’s This Is About an Alligator and Nothing Else, a coming-of-age story set in Florida, took the award, which aims to support unpublished and un-agented writers

The Guardian - UK · Mar 24

Everyday heroes: the ready and reliable recipes I reach for all week long

In this week’s Feast newsletter: With summer giving way to autumn, these good-value, flexible and accommodating eats will make life that little bit easier – and no less delicious

The Guardian - UK · Sep 25, 2025

Hilary Mantel championed emerging writers - a new prize in her memory will help them get published

Judged by Maggie O’Farrell, Ben Miles and Chigozie Obioma, the Hilary Mantel prize will recognise emerging talent, and pay tribute to the Wolf Hall author’s legacy

The Guardian - UK · Sep 21, 2025

Marked decline in semicolons in English books, study suggests

Usage of punctuation down almost half in two decades as further research finds 67% of British students rarely use it

The Guardian - UK · May 18, 2025

In "Wolf Hall" sequel, death is a mirror

Thomas Cromwell dies as he has not lived, reflecting on sins that tarnish his soul

Salon · Mar 23, 2025

The Golden Throne by Christopher de Bellaigue review – Suleyman returns

A new instalment of the extraordinary and brutal story of the greatest Ottoman sultan reads like a thrilling novel

The Guardian - UK · Feb 27, 2025

Ash Sarkar: ‘I never learned much of value from TV’

The leftwing political commentator on gen Z’s disillusionment with democracy, why she’s a ‘Mantel stan’ and the moral panic behind her first book

The Guardian - UK · Feb 15, 2025

The Guardian view on The Traitors: television for dark times

Editorial: The hit show has been compared to cosy crime drama. But it also has parallels with Hilary Mantel’s historical masterpiece

The Guardian - UK · Jan 24, 2025