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10 things Hilary Mantel knows about writing Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
This list is an extract from a post by Hilary Mantel, the international bestselling author, and seems like a good and thought-provoking way to start the new year. It originally appeared in the blog for The Story Prize. The Story Prize is an annual book award for short story…
Hilary Mantel on the dangers of writing historical fiction — Quotes for Writers (and people who like quotes)
Originally posted on BRIDGET WHELAN writer:
A relation of past events brings you up against events and mentalities that, should you choose to describe them, would bring you to the borders of what your readers could bear. The danger you have to negotiate is not the dimpled coyness of the past – it is its…
Controversy Rages Over Mantel’s Fantasy About The Assasination Of Margaret Thatcher
Originally posted on K Morris – Poet:
The author, Hilary Mantel has written a short story in which she imagines the assassination of the late Lady Thatcher. The story is set in 1983 and imagines a fictional scenario in which a middle-class lady allows an IRA terrorist into her house to assassinate the Prime Minister.…
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