Congregation of the Regent House for Honorary Degrees on Tuesday, 18 June 2013: Notice". Cambridge University Reporter. 22 April 2013 . Retrieved 30 January 2016. Hoyle, Ben (6 October 2009). "Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantels tale of historical intrigue". The Times. London . Retrieved 4 May 2010.

The 2020 Booker Prize longlist announced". The Booker Prizes. 27 July 2020 . Retrieved 16 August 2020.

The time is 1970, and it is wonderfully well evoked … The skill with which Mantel manages her time-shifts, the precision of her writing, the acuteness of her observations, the seriousness of her themes, and the way in which she weaves them into a coherant whole, make this an unusually satisfying novel.” - Allan Massie, Scotsman Her next book, The Giant, O'Brien (1998), is set in the 1780s, and is based on the true story of Charles Byrne (or O'Brien). He came to London to earn money by displaying himself as a freak. His bones hang today in the Museum of the Royal College of Surgeons. The novel treats O'Brien and his antagonist, the Scots surgeon John Hunter, less as characters in history than as mythic protagonists in a dark and violent fairytale, necessary casualties of the Age of Enlightenment. She adapted the book for BBC Radio4, in a play starring Alex Norton (as Hunter) and Frances Tomelty. [31] Tan, Clarissa (22 August 2013). "The Spectator's Shiva Naipaul prize for outstanding travel writing is open for entries". The Spectator . Retrieved 26 September 2022. a b Mantel, Hilary (1987). "Last Morning in Al Hamra". The Spectator . Retrieved 26 September 2022.

Lewis, Isobel (23 September 2022). "Which of Hilary Mantel books were adapted for the screen and stage?". The Independent. Mantel discussed her religious views in her 2003 memoir, Giving Up the Ghost. Brought up as a Roman Catholic, she ceased to believe at age 12, but said the religion left a permanent mark on her: I wouldn’t like to draw further comparisons, because I am sure authors hate being accused of pilfering their own lives for creative content, but even the year in which the novel is set — 1970 — is the same year in which Mantel went to university for the first time. The ventral tegmental area is part of what is known as the brain’s reward circuit, which, coincidentally, was discovered by Olds’s father, James, when she was 7 years old. This circuit is considered to be a primitive neural network, meaning it is evolutionarily old; it links with the nucleus accumbens. Some of the other structures that contribute to the reward circuit—the amygdala, the hippocampus, and the prefrontal cortex—are exceptionally sensitive to (and reinforcing of) behavior that induces pleasure, such as sex, food consumption, and drug use.Unearned suffering is redemptive. Suffering, the nonviolent resister realizes, has tremendous educational and transforming possibilities. Hinkelmann, Klaus; Kempthorne, Oscar (2008). Design and Analysis of Experiments. Volume I: Introduction to Experimental Design (2nd ed.). Wiley. ISBN 978-0-471-72756-9. Holland, Paul W. (December 1986). “Statistics and Causal Inference”. Journal of the American Statistical Association.81(396): 945–960.doi: 10.2307/2289064

Just trying something to see what happens is not an experiment. You need a hypothesis or prediction about the outcome. Edemariam, Aida (12 September 2009). "I accumulated an anger that would rip a roof off". The Guardian. London. All three are successful in applying to the University of London. Carmel shares a room in a hall of residence with Julianne, who later changes her name to Julia; while Karina stays with Lynette, a wealthy only child. Karina and Carmel grow further apart. Carmel's university existence is marked by extreme poverty and hunger, while Karina somehow manages to subsist on even fewer resources. In December 2016, Mantel spoke with Kenyon Review editor David H. Lynn on the KR Podcast [56] about the way historical novels are published, what it is like to live in the world of one character for more than ten years, writing for the stage, and the final book in her Thomas Cromwell trilogy, The Mirror and the Light. [56]Hilary Mantel's description of what love is when she first hears Lynette's voice is one of the best I have ever come across. And it didn't take 3 tomes to get there either. Her fellowship between women quotient is just out of the stratosphere. Top tier writer- absolutely gifted and practiced. A nicely constructed book, with many of the usual fine Mantel brushstrokes (capturing so much with what seems to be so little effort), An Experiment in Love is a very fine book. At the age of ten, Carmel's mother pushes her to take the a scholarship exam for the Holy Redeemer, a prestigious Catholic secondary school, and persuades Karina's mother Mary to let Karina apply as well. Both girls are successful and it is here they meet Julianne (as she is then known) for the first time.

Hilary Mantel is justly compared to Muriel Spark as a satirist; this cunning plot with its hidden agenda of violence and betrayal has something in common with Spark's elegant parables." - Judy Cooke, New Statesman & Society Flood, Alison (5 December 2012). "EL James comes out on top at National Book awards". The Guardian. London . Retrieved 5 December 2012. This is a coming-of-age story of Carmel as she leaves her Catholic girlhood, goes to college in the 60s, learns about and lives through sex, love and birth control while she studies and starves on her scholarship grant. It is a familiar plot, this trajectory of a sheltered young woman moving into fuller life in the big wide treacherous world of late 20th century life. Celebrated Author Hilary Mantel To Be Honoured By University of Derby". University of Derby. 10 December 2013 . Retrieved 30 January 2016.

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Mantel, Hilary (17 June 2017). "The Day Is for the Living". Reith Lectures. BBC Radio 4 . Retrieved 11 October 2022.