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Topic History of: Hilary Mantel Max. showing the last 5 posts - (Last post first)
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*
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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.
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