Mantel’s debut is a devastating black comedy which skewered the inadequacy of social service provision in the 1970s through the story of the Axons: widowed Evelyn (th… See more

Newly released from 10 years of incarceration after the suspicious death of her mother, Muriel – “a square, plain woman forty-four years old” – is out for revenge ag… See more

On a dark and stormy night in 1956, a stranger named Fludd turns up in a dismal northern English village wrapped in a black cloak and carrying a black bag. “I’ve come to transfor… See more

A wry and shocking memoir which is essential reading on its own account – it beautifully and conscientiously conjures her working-class Derbyshire childhood in the 1950s – bu… See more

Rarely does a novel raise such strong feelings as this portrait of a travelling psychic, who is haunted by a malign circus dwarf as she works the emotions of the bereaved a… See more