Лучшие произведения Хилари Мэри Мэнтел

Англия, двадцатые годы XVI века. Страна на грани бедствия: если Генрих VIII умрет, не оставив наследника, неизбежна гражданская война. На сцену выступает Томас Кромвель, сын кузнеца-дебошира, политический гений, чьи орудия — подкуп, угрозы и лесть. Его цель — преобразовать Англию сообразно своей воле и желаниям короля, которому он преданно служит. В своем неподражаемом стиле Хилари Мантел показывает общество на переломе истории, общество, в котором каждый с отвагой и страстью идет навстречу своей судьбе.

Впервые на русском — «триумфальный финал завораживающей саги» (NPR), долгожданное завершение прославленной трилогии о Томасе Кромвеле, правой руке короля Генриха VIII, начатой романами «Вулфхолл» («лучший Букеровский лауреат за много лет», Scotsman) и «Введите обвиняемых», также получившим Букера, — случай, беспрецедентный за всю историю премии. Мантел «воссоздала самый важный период новой английской истории: величайший английский прозаик современности оживляет известнейшие эпизоды из прошлого Англии», говорил председатель Букеровского жюри сэр Питер Стотард. Итак, после казни Анны Болейн и женитьбы короля на Джейн Сеймур позиции Кромвеля сильны как никогда. Он подавляет Благодатное паломничество — восстание католиков, спровоцированное закрытием монастырей, — и один из руководителей восстания, лорд Дарси, перед казнью пророчески предупреждает Кромвеля, что королевская милость не вечна. Казалось бы, хорошо известно, чем кончится эта история, — однако роман Мантел читается увлекательнее любого детектива…

В романе "Чернее черного" показана спиритическая изнанка старой и новой Англии. На сеансы, устраиваемые Элисон Харт и ее приятельницами-медиумами, являются настоящие призраки - духи, которые жаждут не покоя, но мести. А мстить им есть за что - ведь прошлое Элисон скрывает массу загадок, о которых ее новая помощница Колетт, обратившаяся к спиритизму после развода с неряхой системным администратором, даже не догадывается...

Дружба двух девочек, одна из которых родом из мещанской среды, а другая и вовсе из самых низов общества. Слоняясь жарким каникулярным летом по своей округе, они сталкиваются с загадочным человеческим существом, глубоко несчастным, но окруженным любовью — чувством, которым подруги обделены.

История из жизни униженных и оскорбленных - лондонских «понаехавших».

From the two-time Man Booker winner, the story of the 18th Century Irish giant, Charles O’Brien.Charles O’Brien, bard and giant. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But what of his own story as he is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England?The Surprising Irish Giant may be the sensation of the season but only his compatriots seem to attend to his mythic powers of invention. John Hunter, celebrated surgeon and anatomist, buys dead men from the gallows and babies’ corpses by the inch. Where is a man as unique as The Giant to hide his bones when he is yet alive?The Giant, O’ Brien is an unforgettable novel; lyrical, shocking and spliced with black comedy.

From the double Man Booker Prize-winning author of ‘Wolf Hall’, a wry, shocking and beautiful memoir of childhood, ghosts, hauntings, illness and family.At no. 58 the top of my head comes to the outermost curve of my great-aunt, Annie Connor. Her shape is like the full moon, her smile is beaming; the outer rim of her is covered by her pinny, woven with tiny flowers. It is soft from washing; her hands are hard and chapped; it is barely ten o'clock and she is getting the cabbage on. 'Hello, Our Ilary,' she says; my family has named me aspirationally, but aspiration doesn't stretch to the 'H'.Giving Up the Ghost is award-winning novelist Hilary Mantel's wry, shocking and uniquely unusual five-part autobiography of childhood, ghosts, illness and family.It opens in 1995 with 'A Second Home', in which Mantel describes the death of her stepfather, a death which leaves her deeply troubled by the unresolved events of childhood. ‘Now Geoffrey Don't Torment Her' begins in typical, gripping Mantel fashion: 'Two of my relatives have died by fire.' Set during the 1950s, it takes the reader into the muffled consciousness of her early childhood, culminating with the birth of a younger brother and the strange candlelit ceremony of her mother's 'churching'. In 'The Secret Garden' Mantel moves to a haunted house and mysteriously gains a stepfather. When she is almost eleven, her family flee the gossips and the ghosts, and resolve to start a new life. 'Smile' is an account of teenage perplexity, in a household where the keeping of secrets has become a way of life. Convent school provides a certain sanctuary, with tacit assistance from the fearsome 'Top Nun.' In the final section, the author tells how, through medical misunderstandings and neglect, she came to be childless, and how the ghosts of the unborn, like chances missed or pages unturned, have come to haunt her life as a writer.

A companion piece to the captivating memoir GIVING UP THE GHOST by the Man Booker-winning author, this collection of loosely autobiographical stories locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.This sharp, funny collection of stories drawn from life begins in the 1950s in an insular northern village 'scoured by bitter winds and rough gossip tongues.' For the child narrator, the only way to survive is to get up, get on, get out.In 'King Billy is a Gentleman', the child must come to terms with the loss of a father and the puzzle of a fading Irish heritage. 'Curved Is the Line of Beauty' is a story of friendship, faith and a near-disaster in a scrap-yard. The title story sees our narrator ironing out her northern vowels with the help of an ex-actress with one lung and a Manchester accent. In 'Third Floor Rising', she watches, dazzled, as her mother carves out a stylish new identity.With a deceptively light touch, Mantel locates the transforming moments of a haunted childhood.

Our greatest living writer.Six of her best novels.Hilary Mantel is the first British writer to win two Man Booker Prizes. This set brings together six of her greatest novels – the first two books in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, the record-setting Man Booker prize-winners ‘Wolf Hall’ and ‘Bring Up the Bodies’.’ A Place of Greater Safety’ is an epic of Revolutionary France. The darkly comic ‘Beyond Black’ is a lively tale of a psychic and the impish spirits she summons. ‘The Giant, O’Brien’ tells the story of the legendary Charles Byrne and the surgeon who wanted his bones. And a family seeks refuge after an unfortunate African sojourn in ‘A…