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About Hilary Mantel
British writer
Dame Hilary Mary Mantel was a British writer best known for historical fiction, as well as memoir and short stories. Her work ranged across several forms, and she published from the mid-1980s onward. Her first novel, Every Day Is Mother's Day, appeared in 1985. Over her career she wrote 12 novels, two short story collections, a memoir, and many articles and opinion pieces.
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Books by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
2013
Wolf Hall
2015
The Mirror and the Light
2020
The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
2014
An Experiment in Love
2007