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Despite the dark storytelling in her new work, Mantel describes Lady Thatcher as a fantastic character who was "the very stuff of drama".
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Straughan, co-author of the 2011 film Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, is working with Mantel, who is a consultant on the screenplay.
The work of Hilary Mantel – a double Booker prize-winning author – is of significant interest to the public and we will not shy away from the controversial subject matter that features in one of the four stories read across the week".
The writer, who has worked closely with Mantel, has spoken of the pain of choosing what to leave out.
And the historical novel is a reliable mainstay of the fiction charts, from the popularist tomes of Ken Follett and Dan Brown to the Booker winning works of Hilary Mantel and Barry Unsworth.
Bob Gibbs, an Ohio state senator who toured a Heat Surge workshop last year, said that he had seen Amish craftspeople at work on the mantels, though he had also seen non-Amish workers in other areas of the factory.
Without clobbering the reader with the weight of her research, Mantel works up a 16th-century world in which only a joker would call for cherries in April or lettuce in December, and where hearing an unlicensed preacher is an illicit thrill on a par with risking syphilis.
Although fireplace mantels work for temporary display, mounting them on sturdy boards around and near Christmas trees work too.
But as anyone who has read Ms Mantel's work knows, she is rare indeed.
You only have to look at the titles she has appended to her work to realise that Mantel isn't averse to a bit of mischief-making.
If you want to know what novelistic intelligence is, you might compare a page or two of Hilary Mantel's work with worthy historical fiction by contemporary writers such as Peter Ackroyd or Susan Sontag.
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