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Ghosts, Spirits and Muses: Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall on stage by Aurora Dawson-Hunte
From the Wolf Hall Weekend Event – June 2024, Cadhay. We’re thrilled to share this transcript of the talk given by Aurora Dawson-Hunte at our Wolf Hall Weekend, June 2024 at Cadhay House, East Devon. Aurora has kindly allowed us to reproduce it here and we hope you will find it as inspiring as did…
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Wolf Hall Weekend follow up
My sincerest thanks to everyone who helped make the Wolf Hall Weekend at Cadhay House in Devon such a remarkable success. Here’s a sample of the unsolicited feedback that filled my inbox over the last 2 weeks since the event wolfhallweekend/praise. Thanks to everyone who attended and supported our celebration of the life and work…
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Wolf Hall Read Along
Join us in an online group read of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy Starting on January 1st 2024, Wolf Hall Weekend will be joining an online group read of Hilary Mantel’s Wolf Hall Trilogy starting with Wolf Hall and following a leisurely and indulgent pace of around forty pages a week. The group is run…
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Wolf Hall Weekend Podcast Launch with Special Guest Dr Owen Emmerson
The Wolf Hall Weekend will feature an amazing lineup of speakers and panel members including Dr Owen Emmerson. We were privileged to speak to Owen last week and explore the topic he will focus on at the weekend in June 2024 at Cadhay House. Here is a recording of that interview, where Owen reveals his…
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The Return of Wolf Hall: ‘The Mirror and the Light’ is finally in production!
The media is awash this week with the exciting news that the TV adaption of Hilary’s final book is in production. Of course the stage production of the novel has sadly been and gone. It was brilliantly scripted by Hilary herself in collaboration with her friend and actor Ben Miles, who reprised his part as…
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The Bard and the Dame – Hilary Mantel’s relationship to Shakespeare on the 400th anniversary of the First Folio
‘I read Shakespeare’s Julius Caesar at the age of ten, and I think that it really set the direction of my future life and my interests; everything that I myself would try to be as a writer.’ Dame Hilary Mantel ‘There is a Shakespearean quality to Mantel’s writing: the mixture of low and high discourse,…
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Hilary’s Horrible Henry VIII
“Henry VIII is a monster, but he’s our monster. No other nation has a king who had six wives and cut the heads off two. We’re perversely proud of Henry.” – Hilary Mantel Hilary Mantel brings a deeply reasoned perspective on Henry VIII, as she does with all the characters in her Wolf Hall Trilogy. She gives us…
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Being Anne Boleyn
“Anne Boleyn doesn’t know she was going to have her head lopped off by a swordsman from Calais,” says Peter Kosminsky in a British Film Institute panel discussion about the Wolf Hall TV series, that he so brilliantly directed. You can watch an excerpt of the wonderful panel discussion here: On the same panel are…
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Hilary Mantel’s Latest Book is published today!
Hilary Mantel – A Memoir of My Former Self – A life in writing. Nicholas Pearson – Hilary’s longtime editor writes in the forward of this last but essential book: ‘She was a writer at the peak of her powers, one for whom fresh creative vistas were just opening up’. From her unique childhood to…
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Hilary Mantel Memorial Bench: A fitting tribute to a literary treasure
by David Holland Last week, on September 22nd (2023) I had the privilege to be present at the presentation of a memorial bench to honor the late Dame Hilary Mantel in Budleigh Salterton, Devon. The bench was presented to the town’s Mayor, David Hayward, by the Budleigh Salterton Literary Festival. The date coincided with the…