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Downloadable Hilary Mantel Author Sampler

This celebrated author recently passed at age 70 after complications from a stroke. Mantel's fiction used women's bodies and fertility as major themes after the author's struggles with endometriosis dominated her early adult life. Mantel's writing spanned the historical, personal, and political, and her writing will be remembered and read for decades to come. Now best known for her historical fiction, Hilary Martel caused a media frenzy in 1983 with her short story "The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher". Later in her career, Mantel became a highly regarded writer for the London Review of Books, and helped define the literary scene internationally for over a decade. Downloading the Libby or Hoopla app to your favorite device will be required to access these materials. For detailed instructions on listening to audiobooks in your vehicle, see https://www.fulcolibrary.org/blogs/post/how-to-listen-to-downloadable-audiobooks-in-your-car/

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  • Mantel Pieces

    Royal Bodies and Other Writing From the London Review of Books

    Mantel, Hilary, 1952-2022
    The author's most celebrated essays and reviews from the London Review of Books were collected in this volume in 2020. Fans of Mantel's historical fiction will enjoy her unique prose style and commentary on the literary world of the turn of the last…
    eBook, 2020Glasgow : Fourth Estate, 2020. — EBOOK
  • Book one, Thomas Cromwell series. Mantel's most popular work is contained in this historical fiction trilogy, which won the Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle award. All volumes of this series are available as downloadable eAudiobooks…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2020[United States] : Macmillan Audio, 2020. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • This collection of short stories includes Mantel's infamous title story. Shocking at the time, allies of Thatcher called for a police investigation, to which Mantel responded: "Bringing in the police for an investigation was beyond anything I could…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2014[United States] : Macmillan Audio, 2014. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • First published in the UK in 1994, this novel was republished in the US in 1997, where it quickly rose to the top of best-of lists. The topics covered include a long marriage, missionary work in Africa, murder and kidnapping. To say more would be to…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2016[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2016. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • Based on the author's own experiences living in the middle east in the 1980's, the author predicted the cataclysmic culture clash coming in the new century twenty years ahead of time. A great read that is now historical fiction, this book is a must…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2014[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2014. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • This novel won 1996 Hawthornden Prize, and continues to be taught in college courses as the main subject matter - class differences, poor college students, and the new sexual experiences young adults - remains evergreeen. Available with no wait on…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2015[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2015. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • This fictionalised account of Irish giant Charles Byrne (O'Brien) and Scottish surgeon John Hunter is set in 1870, and was first published in 1998. Mantel wrote of this book that it helped her understand her own connection to the Irish as a people.…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2017[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2017. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • What is it to be Catholic clergy in 1950's England? What if the devil showed up in your church and offered to help you out? Download the hoopla app to listen to one of Mantel's weirder works of historical fiction on your favorite device with no wait.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2017[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2017. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • Mantel wrote this novel about the French Revolution in the 1970's, but it remained unpublished until 1992. Where possible, the author used the historical figures' own words, from their speeches or writings. Available with no wait on hoopla.
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2016[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2016. — EAUDIOBOOK
  • This black comedy set in the mid-1970s and begins with the widowed spiritualist Evelyn Axon's discovery that her daughter Muriel is pregnant. First published in 1985, some of the language surrounding Muriel's intellectual disability is…
    Downloadable Audiobook, 2017[United States] : Recorded Books, Inc., 2017. — EAUDIOBOOK