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CHRISTMAS 2025: When it comes to gifts, you can’t go wrong with a good book. Here you’ll find standout titles across genres and styles, thoughtfully selected by The Independent’s culture staff to suit readers of every predilection

Short story set in 1983, and published a year after the former prime minister’s death, considers ‘what happens when people feel they don’t have a voice’ says director John Young

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

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

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

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

Authors, journalists and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month

“Talk to me before you believe anything!”, Thomas Cromwell (played by Mark Rylance) tells his monarch and master Henry VIII (played by Damien Lewis) in a pivotal scene in the penultimate episode of the BBC adaptation of The Mirror and the Light, the 900-page third act in Hilary Mantel’s acclaimed…

She may be the most painted woman in history, almost always portrayed as subservient, pure, chaste – and never actually giving birth. Thank goodness female artists like Paula Rego and Esther Strauss provided a reality check