The greatest literary sensation of recent times - and now the inspiration for a major BBC series, starring Mark Rylance and Damian Lewis and directed by Peter Kosminsky. In this staggeringly brilliant novel, Hilary Mantel brings the opulent, brutal world of the Tudors to bloody, glittering life. It [...]
"Obligatory reading." - from the foreword by Janos Starker. "Cello Technique" is not an instruction book or a "cello method" but a scientific explanation of learning processes, bodily movements, and principles of sound production. Simple drawings and easily performed experiments show how to conserve[...]
In postwar rural England, Hilary Mantel grew up convinced that the most improbable of accomplishments, including "chivalry, horsemanship, and swordplay," were within her grasp. Once married, however, she acquired a persistent pain that led to destructive drugs and patronizing psychiatry, ending in a[...]
Trouble spirals out of control for a psychic and her personal assistant when they take up with a spirit guide and his drowned therapist after moving to a suburban wasteland. By the author of A Change of Climate. Reprint. 25,000 first printing.[...]
A "New York Times Book Review" Notable Book of the Year
It was the year after Chappaquiddick, and all spring Carmel McBain had watery dreams about the disaster. Now she, Karina, and Julianne were escaping the dreary English countryside for a London University hall of residence. Interspersing acc[...]
"New York Times Book Review "Notable Book of the Year
"Los Angeles Times" Best Book of the Year
London, 1782: center of science and commerce, home to the newly rich and the desperately poor. In the midst of it all is the Giant, O'Brien, a freak of nature, a man of song and story who trusts in[...]
Origin and Ellipsis in the Writing of Hilary Mantel provokes a re-engagement with Derrida's thinking in contemporary literature, with particular emphasis on the philosopher's preoccupation with the process of writing. This is the first book-length study of Mantel's writing, not just in terms of Derr[...]
Project Management in Practice, 4th Edition focuses on the technical aspects of project management that are directly related to practice. This textbook is organised around the project management life cycle and it provides students with essential project management concepts, with a focus on PMBOK, [...]
Winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize
Winner of the 2012 Costa Book of the Year AwardThe sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and "New York Times" bestseller, "Wolf Hall" delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne BoleynThough he battled for seven years to ma[...]
A tale of enormous suspense and growing horror, "The Fox in the Attic" is the widely acclaimed first part of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, "The Human Predicament." Set in the early 1920s, the book centers on Augustine, a young man from an aristocratic Welsh family who has come of a[...]
The Wooden Shepherdess is the sequel to The Fox in the Attic, and the second volume of Richard Hughes's monumental historical fiction, The Human Predicament." It opens with Hughes's hero Augustine in prohibition-era America, where he is a bemused onlooker and increasingly fascinated participant in a[...]
A heartwarming cozy mystery series about losing everything, taking a chance, and starting again. After suffering a personal tragedy Abby Sullivan buys a huge old seaside mansion she has never even seen, packs up her life in San Francisco, and moves to Holiday Bay Maine, where she is adopted, quite a[...]
WINNER OF THE 2012 MAN BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK AWARD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE WOMEN'S PRIZE
Named One of the 10 Best Books of the Year by
"The New York Times Book Review - The Washington Post""- Publishers Weekly
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Named a Best Book of the Year by
"The New Yorker - Ti[...]
MIKE POULTON'S TWO-PART STAGE ADAPTATION OF HILARY MANTEL'S ACCLAIMED NOVELS "WOLF HALL" AND "BRING UP THE BODIES
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Hilary Mantel's Thomas Cromwell novels are the most formidable literary achievements of recent times, both recipients of the Man Booker Prize. Adapted by Mike Poulton, the plays [...]
"One of the greatest achievements of modern literature."--Man Booker Prize Committee
Winners of the Man Booker Prize and hugely successful stage plays in London's West End and on Broadway, "Wolf Hall" and" Bring Up the Bodies" bring history to life for a whole new audience having now been adapte[...]
Henry VIII is on the throne, but has no heir. Cardinal Wolsey is his chief advisor, charged with securing the divorce the pope refuses to grant. Into this atmosphere of distrust and need, comes Thomas Cromwell, first as Wolsey's clerk, and later his successor.[...]
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and "New York Times" bestseller, "Wolf Hall" delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and[...]
The sequel to Hilary Mantel's 2009 Man Booker Prize winner and "New York Times" bestseller, "Wolf Hall" delves into the heart of Tudor history with the downfall of Anne Boleyn Though he battled for seven years to marry her, Henry is disenchanted with Anne Boleyn. She has failed to give him a son and[...]