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Topic History of: Hilary Mantel
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wyot	Just caught up with the HM doc on bbc 2. "I could do more but he (i.e Cromwell) is dead..." What fitting last words. What passion to dedicate 15 years - day after day - to the books. HM is an utterly remarkable woman. Our greatest living writer. But yes also agree that Dickens is the greatest overall by some margin. King I enjoy, Rowling not read as assumed Harry Potter is just for kids.. Mind you I did love Northern Lights etc so maybe should get over that and try her...!
JK2006	I think she's a wonderful writer; from the first pages of Wolf Hall I was hooked. I've also always loved JK Rowling and Stephen King. But greatest of all, for me, even today, still, is Charles Dickens.
wyot	Fludd is a good novel Barney but outside the "Tudor books" her book on the French Revolution - 'A Place Of Greater Safety" is also a masterpiece.. Let us know what Google says about it?
Barney	anti-catholic*
Barney	Despite somewhat negative views on our Royal family - for which she received prime ministerial admonishment - HM is now a DBE, of course. Of Irish descent and raised as a Catholic, she also expressed some serious misgivings on that religion's clergy - long before it became commonplace. Her novel Fludd depicts a fictional northern English parish in the 50s - demonising its two errant priests. And the Bishop of Plymouth noted a non-catholic thread in Wolf Hall.