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In A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, Hilary Mantel writes: “There is no failed writing, only work pending.” She’s referring to the 97 notebooks that she kept in a wooden box. Mantel promised: “There is nothing I won’t say, only what I haven’t said yet.”

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The publication will be marked with three curated events at Cheltenham Literature Festival, Stratford Literary Festival and at the British Library.

Thomas Cromwell’s personal prayer book has been found in a Cambridge library, where it has been hiding in plain sight for centuries. “The Book of Hours”, which features in Hans Holbein’s portrait of the Tudor statesman, was identified by historians who had discovered that both Anne Boleyn and Catherine of…

There are three copies of the 1527 Book of Hours in existence, two of which belonged to Catherine of Aragon and Anne Boleyn

Millions of people around the world will be watching as Charles is crowned king of the United Kingdom and 14 other Commonwealth realms. And it’s fair to say that a huge number of them could claim some degree of kinship with the new monarch as distant cousins at least. It’s…

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…

In the week of the Wolf Hall author’s memorial, her husband and agent talk about the Jane Austen satire she was working on when she died in 2022. Plus: read an exclusive extract, along with her earliest published work

The British writer was best known for the Wolf Hall trilogy about the life of Thomas Cromwell, which won two Booker prizes.

Shardlake is set at the time of Henry VIII and follows the adventures of lawyer Matthew Shardlake...