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For the many readers of Mantel's two Cromwell novels (the first of which, Wolf Hall, is the fastest-selling Booker winner to date), idle comparisons with the behaviour of current political figures are irresistible.
The film version, with the same cast and director, offered a vivid record of the stage performances of Bancroft and Duke, both of whom won Academy Awards, the latter becoming, at 16, the youngest Oscar winner to date.
I'm also now embarrassed to admit that if Philip Hensher had taken the honours, I was ready to be yet more spiteful and declare it a Tory plot and lay down a few conspiracy theories about how Michael Portillo's chairmanship had returned the most conspicuously rightwing Booker winner to date.
It's by no means quintessential Ghibli: a melancholy adaptation of a 10th-century folk tale, rendered in stylised ink-and-watercolour strokes, it's a world away from the florid fantasy of Spirited Away (Ghibli's only Oscar winner to date), but scarcely less exquisite.
The last time Nicholls was involved in a close-fought title scrap at this stage of the season, in 2012, he delivered a knockout blow by landing the National with Neptune Collonges, his only winner to date of the famous race.
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