Hilary mantel

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The team behind the seventh Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival are looking forward to welcoming more first class authors, historians and biographers to East Devon in September. Tickets for this year’s festival will be available online on Friday 24th July from 5pm, and offer the opportunity to see the usual mix of best-selling, award winning and inspirational authors, including Paula Hawkins, author of record breaking novel, The Girl On The Train, which has been on top of the UK hardback…

On 21 May 2019, a billboard appeared in Leicester Square. It featured a Tudor rose and the slogan “So now get up”. There was no context, no release date, no website address or hashtag to follow. Fans

Had her area of expertise been the twentieth century rather than sixteenth, Hilary Mantel might have known better than to take on any controversial …

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“Once the queen’s head is severed, he walks away. A sharp pang of appetite reminds him that it is time for a second breakfast, or perhaps an early dinner.”