The word "mantel" is correct and usable in written English.
It is typically used to refer to the shelf above a fireplace. For example, "The family hung pictures on the mantel to decorate the living room."
The book has also scooped up plenty other awards, and has given Ms Mantel some deserved recognition.
A Willem de Kooning hangs over the ornate mantel in the Green Room.
Neoclassical furniture displayed Antinoüs-type supports and lotus friezes, decorative objects (e.g., mantel clocks with a pair of vases or obelisks) and jewelry sported scarabs, cartouches, and sphinxes, and china services bore Egyptian motifs.
£45, johnlewis 6/8 Newgate Classic Alarm Clock Newgate is known for its simple but striking wall, mantel and alarm clocks.
To turn to the living, and recently ignored in favour of men, the Queen and her secretary have (supposing the honour was not refused) turned their noses up at, listing a few of the most obvious names, Mary Warnock, AS Byatt, Lisa Jardine, Onora O'Neill, Mary Beard, Claire Tomalin, Hilary Mantel, Diana Athill and JK Rowling.
—Jennifer Myers I adore everything by Hilary Mantel and Margaret Atwood, among others, but for personal impact, I have to go with The Dispossessed by Ursula K LeGuin.
At the time, Mantel explained her story was an examination of why Thatcher "aroused such visceral passion in so many people".
The author Hilary Mantel has delivered a defiant response to criticism from Tory MPs and rightwing commentators of her imagined account of the killing of Margaret Thatcher by an IRA sniper.
Mantel said her story was an examination of why Thatcher "aroused such visceral passion in so many people".
