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Hilary Mantel (1952–2022) was an English novelist, short story writer, and critic. Her novel Wolf Hall won the Man Booker Prize in 2009.
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Dreams & Duels of England
The Ends of Life: Roads to Fulfilment in Early Modern England
by Keith Thomas
October 22, 2009 issue
The War Against Women
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume I: Origins
by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume II: The Masculine Mystique
by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume III: Infernos and Paradises, the Triumph of Capitalism in the 19th Century
by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood
From Eve to Dawn: A History of Women, Volume IV: Revolutions and the Struggles for Justice in the 20th Century
by Marilyn French, with a foreword by Margaret Atwood
April 30, 2009 issue
The Perils of Antoinette
Queen of Fashion: What Marie Antoinette Wore to the Revolution
by Caroline Weber
A Scented Palace: The Secret History of Marie Antoinette's Perfumer
by Elisabeth de Feydeau, translated from the French by Jane Lizop
January 11, 2007 issue
Revelations for the West
Temptations of the West: How to Be Modern in India, Pakistan, Tibet, and Beyond
by Pankaj Mishra
September 21, 2006 issue
The Right to Life
The Death of Innocents: An Eyewitness Account of Wrongful Executions
by Sister Helen Prejean
May 12, 2005 issue
Voices in the Dark
Women Writing Africa: The Southern Region
edited by M.J. Daymond, Dorothy Driver, Sheila Meintjes, Leloba Molema, Chiedza Musengezi, Margie Orford, and Nobantu Rasebotsa
February 10, 2005 issue
Naipaul’s Book of the World
The Writer and the World
by V.S. Naipaul, edited and with an introduction by Pankaj Mishra
October 24, 2002 issue
A Past Recaptured
A Favourite of the Gods
by Sybille Bedford
A Compass Error
by Sybille Bedford
Jigsaw: An Unsentimental Education
by Sybille Bedford
November 29, 2001 issue
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