by Hilary Mantel
bookshelves: winter-20142015, published-2014, radio-4, shortstory-shortstories-novellas Recommended for: BBC Radio Listeners Read from December 13, 2014 to January 10, 2015 BABThttp://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b04wv09dThatcher 'murder' is BBC's Book at Bedtime: Radio 4 ignores protests to give H...
There is a good variety of stories presented in this short book. They are so original and so creative; they are a joy to contemplate. Finally, an author has provided something to read that is not the same-old, same-old variation of a tired idea, not something that feels like it has been hastily writ...
This is my first Mantel. I’ve been postponing reading the first two volumes of the Cromwell trilogy, waiting for the third volume to come out predictably in 2016. One does not tackle a twice-awarded-writer-with-the-Man-Booker-Prize without having everything in one big bundle to make a proper assessm...
I read this when it was printed in the NY Times Review of Books.Good political fiction on the same level of Handmaid's Tale, though about a different subject all together.
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