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Hilary Mantel

July 2024

  • Cornu aspersum (the Common garden snail) in a garden in Bexleytheath, Kent

    Brief letters
    Life in the fast lane for snails this year

    Brief letters: Year of the snail | Poetic pylons | Hilary Mantel | Poo bag premium | Difficult decisions

June 2024

  • Composite image of best paperbacks February 2024

    This month's best paperbacks
    This month’s best paperbacks: Zadie Smith, Matthew Perry and more

    Looking for a new reading recommendation? Here are some fantastic new paperbacks, from gripping novels to touching memoirs

October 2023

  • Hilary Mantel.

    A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – smart reflections on Wolf Hall, religion… and RoboCop

    This collection of essays and journalism is a poignant reminder of the novelist’s expansive mind, and of what more she might have achieved
  • Stephen Rubin, a longtime publishing executive who released such blockbusters as The Da Vinci Code and Fire and Fury, has died.

    Stephen Rubin, book publisher for John Grisham and Dan Brown, dead at 81

    The dynamic publisher, known for memorable parties and famous friends, is credited with many of publishing’s enduring bestsellers
  • Hilary Mantel in 2017.

    Book of the day
    A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel review – B-sides and rarities

    A posthumous collection of the Booker-winner’s nonfiction shows her lesser-known works to be the equal of her hits

September 2023

  • Hilary Mantel.

    ‘Provocative’ new book to showcase four decades of Hilary Mantel’s work

    The wide-ranging collection A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing features subjects from her health struggles to Robocop and has been announced a year after the author’s death

April 2023

  • Author Hilary Mantel, 1995

    Hilary Mantel’s last novel was to have been an Austen mash-up: read an exclusive extract starring Mr Darcy

    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
  • John Crace

    Digested week
    Don’t knock the coronation – it could be up there with It’s a Knockout

    John Crace
    Although most of the UK is unenthusiastic, put me down for coronation trivia watch
  • Hilary Mantel

    Hilary Mantel was working on ‘mashup’ of Jane Austen novels before her death

    Wolf Hall trilogy author remembered at memorial service at Southwark cathedral on Thursday

March 2023

  • Dustin Hoffman and Robert Redford in the 1976 film adaptation of All the President’s Men.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 books about corruption

  • ‘There was no one quite like her’ … Hilary Mantel.

    Hilary Mantel memorial to be held at Southwark Cathedral

January 2023

  • From despair to insight … novelist Hanif Kureishi in better health, at his London home.

    Nurse! My pen! Hanif Kureishi’s hospital musings and the art of sickbed writing

  • ‘What misery to be wise’ … Greg Hicks as Tiresias in The Oedipus Plays by Sophocles at the National Theatre in 1996.

    Top 10s
    Top 10 novels and stories about prophets

December 2022

  • ‘A unique kind of bespoke benevolence’: Hilary Mantel, pictured in 2020.

    The Observer's obituaries of 2022
    Hilary Mantel remembered by Ben Miles

    6 July 1952 – 22 September 2022
    The actor, who played Thomas Cromwell in the stage adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, on the writer whose genius was matched by her openness

October 2022

  • Indelicacy by Anna Cain, An Experiment in Love by HIlary Mantel, Just Ignore by Alan Davies.

    What we're reading
    What we’re reading: writers and readers on the books they enjoyed in October

    Authors, critics and Guardian readers discuss the titles they have read over the last month. Join the conversation in the comments

September 2022

  • Mark Rylance: ‘It’s the time now for us to come down the dark side of the mountain.’

    ‘When is it OK to start blowing things up?’ Mark Rylance on families, Hilary Mantel and climate disaster

    The actor discusses his new drama at the London film festival, being starstruck by Meryl Streep – and the best way to take environmental action
  • The coffin of Queen Elizabeth II is pulled past Buckingham Palace following her funeral service in Westminster Abbey earlier this month.

    We must keep the rituals that bind us – not blind us

    Letters: Readers respond to Nesrine Malik’s article about the mysticism of royalty, and how pageantry is designed to engineer consent, even awe, for an unequal system
    • Hilary Mantel knew how corrosive deference to monarchy can be – and why we must resist

      Nesrine Malik
    • The remarkable generosity of Hilary Mantel will not be forgotten

    • Hilary Mantel: Wolf Hall trilogy only a part of her towering legacy

      Gaby Wood
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