Hilary Mantel

The first British writer to win the Booker Prize on two separate occasions - for <i>Wolf Hall</i>in 2009 and its sequel <i>Bring Up the Bodies</i>in 2012 - Hilary Mantel is one of the most popular and lauded novelists working today.<br/> <br/> <i>Hilary Mantel: Contemporary Critical Perspectives</i>is a critical guide to Mantel's work from her earliest novels through to her recent Thomas Cromwell fictions including analysis of her short story collections and memoir. Chapters cover such topics as Mantel's engagement with history to her deployment of the spectral and her extensive intertextuality. The book also includes a comprehensive interview with Mantel herself that explores her work and career.