One of the most acclaimed series of British novels in recent times has to be the Wolf Hall books by the late, great Dame Hilary Mantel. The trilogy charts the life of a pivotal figure in the court ...

Award-winning author Dame Hilary Mantel has suggested racism has been ... Hall and continued with 2012's Bring Up the Bodies. Both books went on to win the Booker Prize. Wallis Simpson's hard ...

Dame Hilary tells the BBC ... with Lydia Leonard] played Thomas Cromwell in stage adaptations of Mantel's books The pair had become close friends and Miles, who played Peter Townsend in The ...