Book review: Hilary Mantel’s ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher and Other Stories’
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‘Plastic’ Kate is a ‘designed to breed’ automaton: Hilary Mantel
Booker-prize-winning author ignites fury with critique of royals
Reading Wolf Hall and the morning paper
I happened to stay up late last night to finish the Man Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, in which novelist Hilary Mantel imagines Thomas Cromwell, Henry VIII’s often vilified chief minister, as a wily humanist who ushers England toward modern government. This being a story of 16th-century statecraft, torture and executions feature prominently. More than once the question of whether the king might show sufficient mercy to have someone’s head cut off, rather than burning them alive, arises.
How faithful do you need to be?
The Booker winner and a GG nominee take very different approaches to historical fiction