HILARY MANTEL
March 2015
Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, superbly adapted for television, is brilliant because it defies easy definition
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October 2012
Peter Ackroyd's Tudors is a pedestrian chronicle of the fascinating age of Reformation
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June 2012
Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies is a dazzling exercise in literary ventriloquism, but it panders too much to modern sensibilities, painting Thomas Cromwell as a secular saint
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