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

Mantel’s first foray into the historical epic lights up the history of the French Revolution through the story of its three main protagonists, Robespierre, Danton and Desmo… 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