Dame Hilary Mantel was a writer of immense skill and originality, and her death represents an incalculable loss to British literature. She will be chiefly remembered for her trilogy on the life of the Tudor politician Thomas Cromwell. The grace and vigour of these gripping novels transformed our understanding of what historical fiction can do. More

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