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Losing yourself in a great novel is one of life’s joys. Here our critics Ceri Radford and Chris Harvey pick the books you need to read

I went to Hilary Mantel’s memorial service at Southwark Cathedral last week. Sir Mark Rylance and Ben Miles, who both played her hero Thomas Cromwell, did readings and there were memories from her friends and family. Two things emerged: Mantel the feminist and Mantel the muse. They are the same…

Late author said in an interview that it was ‘hard to understand the thinking behind the monarchy in the modern world’

It wasn't just Paul O'Grady honoured, with tributes paid to Darius Campbell-Danesh, Hilary Mantel, Burt Bacharach, Nicholas Lloyd Webber, Dame Angela Lansbury, Bernard Cribbins and Kay Mellor

The Irish author on the power of Edna O’Brien, Zola’s lust, and struggling with Emily Brontë

The celebration of the double Booker winner’s life will include tributes and readings from her work with a limited number of tickets available for the general public

The Crown confirmed her as acting royalty, but she always struggled with self-doubt. Now, after a storm about her salary, she is determined to express her feelings – even the difficult ones

The author has published 10,000 words since being left paralysed – about the able-bodied, sexual positions and racist taunts. From Hilary Mantel to Audre Lorde, we look at how illness changes a writer

The late author Hilary Mantel once wrote of Queen Elizabeth II that she was “a thing that existed to be looked at”. This became even truer in death.