Budleigh Salterton-based Hilary Mantel’s controversial story ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher’ has made the shortlist for the BBC National Short Story Award 2015 with Book Trust. Unpublished stories by ‘The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time’ author Mark Haddon, Jonathan Buckley, Frances Leviston, and Jeremy Page are also in the running for this year’s Award. The shortlist of five stories was announced yesterday evening (Wednesday 16 September) during BBC Radio 4’s ‘Front Row’.
Now celebrating its tenth birthday, the Award is one of the most prestigious for a...
Organisers of the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival have released the line up for this year’s festival, taking place from 17th-20th September.
The announcement reveals a diverse selection of critically acclaimed, award-winning authors who are set to descend on the East Devon seaside town for the festival’s seventh consecutive year.
Appearing on Thursday afternoon will be celebrated children’s author and artist, Judith Kerr, creator of iconic books such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea, When Hitler Stole the Pink Rabbit and the Mog series. Judith will be discussing Creatures...
One of the country's most distinguished living novelists, Hilary Mantel will discuss the impulse to recover the past that lies behind her historical fiction. The talk will be held in the stunning Alumni Auditorium, at the University of Exeter and members of the public, students and staff are welcome to attend.
The inspiration for the talk is a photograph of Hilary Mantel's great-grandmother on the doorstep of a terraced house in a Derbyshire mill village. She was far from her birthplace in Ireland, and the photograph is the single image of her that remains. The photo was taken at...
Budliegh Salterton-based novelist Hilary Mantel has defended her controversial comments about the Duchess of Cambridge.
The writer had been quoted as saying the duchess was a "shop-window mannequin" whose only purpose was to breed.
But she told BBC Radio 3's Night Waves programme that her words had been taken out of context.
Mantel said her speech had clearly been addressing a perception of Catherine that had been created in the mediawhen she decribed her as "gloss-varnished" with a perfect plastic smile, and having no personality.
Bring Up the Bodies by Budleigh Salterton-based novelist Hilary Mantel has won the title of 2012 Costa Book of the Year. The sequel to Mantel's award-winning novel Wolf Hall and the second book of a trilogy, Bring Up the Bodies continues the life of Thomas Cromwell and explores one of the most mystifying and frightening episodes in English history, the destruction of Anne Boleyn.
The announcement was made this evening (Tuesday 29th January) at an awards ceremony held at Quaglino’s in central London.
Mantel’s win secures her a unique place in literary history: Bring Up the...
Budleigh Salterton-based author Hilary Mantel has added to her growing collection of awards as she has been named as the winner of the The Costa novel prize for the second book in her historical trilogy, Bring up the Bodies . Having already received the accolade of being the first living UK author to receive the Man Booker Prize twice, Hilary is said to be delighted with the latest honour.
The judges described the historical story as "quite simply the best novel of the year". Continuing what began in the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall , the reader is transported back to the...
One of the country’s most distinguished living novelists, University of Exeter honorary graduate Hilary Mantel, will read from her latest novel Bring Up the Bodies, sequel to her Man Booker prizewinning Wolf Hall , at a special event hosted by the University of Exeter tonight (October 11).
The event takes place in the Alumni Auditorium, part of the new Forum at the Streatham Campus.
Wolf Hall is a study of Thomas Cromwell, the man who engineered the dissolution of the monasteries to the execution of Anne Boleyn.
It won not only the Man Booker 2010 but also the...
Devon author Hilary Mantel recently became the first British writer to win the Man Booker Prize for Fiction twice, after her novel Bring up the Bodies was named the best book of the year.
To celebrate her success Devon County Council’s Library Service is ordering additional copies of her books, and offering free reservations on all her titles until Christmas.
Devon’s full library catalogue can also be accessed online at www.devon.gov.uk/libraries . The website offers full search facilities to help people find and reserve books, films, music, audio books...
The whittling has finished. The judges of this year's Man Booker Prize started with a daunting 145 novels and have winnowed, sifted, culled, and in some cases hurled, until there was only one left: Budleigh Salterton-based Hilary Mantel 's Bring up the Bodies .
Hers is a story unique in Man Booker history. She becomes only the third author, after Peter Carey and J.M. Coetzee , to win the prize twice, which puts her in the empyrean. But she is also the first to win with a sequel ( Wolf Hall won in 2009) and the first to win with such a brief interlude between books. Her...
