Hilary Mantel is one of Britain’s most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. Sir Peter Stothard, Chair of the judges for the Man Booker Prize 2012, hailed her as ‘the greatest modern English prose writer’. She is the author of thirteen books, including ‘A Place of Greater Safety’, ‘Beyond Black’, and the memoir ‘Giving Up the Ghost’. Her two most recent novels, ‘Wolf Hall’ and its sequel ‘Bring Up the Bodies’ have both been awarded The Man Booker Prize. In 2014 she was made a Dame.
