US novelist wins 2013 Women's Prize fo...

Jeremy Herrin, who will direct the theatrical adaptation of Hilary Mantel's Wolf Hall, has been appointed as the new artistic director of the Headlong theatre company. Herrin said he was "absolutely thrilled" to take on the role, calling Headlong ...

An American author's black comedy has prevented Britain's Hilary Mantel from completing an historic literary awards treble. A M Homes won this year's Women's Prize For Fiction, picking up a £30,000 cheque, with her novel May We Be Forgiven. ...

The author, whose novels Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies both won the Man Booker prize, said she could not understand why he was

Also released are titles by Robert A. Caro, Anna Quindlen, Kevin Powers and Joan Rivers.'Bring Up The Bodies' by Hilary MantelThis month's critic's pick is Bring Up the Bodies by Hilary Mantel (Picador, fiction, reprint, on sale Tuesday, * * * * out ...

Zadie Smith and Barbara Kingsolver, both past winners, join Hilary Mantel as finalists in the Women's Prize for Fiction. Formerly known as the Orange Prize for Fiction, the annual award was created in 1996 and celebrates fiction by women worldwide.

After the furore over Hilary Mantel's venomous attack on the Duchess of Cambridge, whom she described as a "shop-window mannequin" with a "plastic smile", you might have thought writers would think twice about putting pen to paper on the subject.

J.K. Rowling and other authors are selling first-edition copies of their books with annotations, written thoughts on the book, and/or illustrations to benefit the writers' organization English PEN. J.K. Rowling, Hilary Mantel, Ian McEwan, Philip ...

What's the best book you read in the last year? The term "best" would have to stretch. There's reading that's important to me, in a personal way: I've been working my way through the books of the psychologist Alice Miller, which are short and very ...

From Ray Bradbury to Hilary Mantel, ''The Golem and the Jinni' author Helene Wecker shares her favorite magical realist books.Helene Wecker has written 'The Golem and the Jinni.'Readers who've been enchanted by the surreal utopia of Macondo in ...