They announced the winner of this year's Whitbread Costa Book Award, and, yes, Hilary Mantel has racked up another win, with the Man Booker-winning Bring up the Bodies.
I'm a longtime admirer of Mantel's work, but have stayed away from her latest historical fictions -- and when even Robert McCrum finds (in The Guardian) that this is: "A middlebrow triumph in a distinctly odd middlebrow prize" ... well, it confirms my decision not to be in any rush to get to it.
I'm a longtime admirer of Mantel's work, but have stayed away from her latest historical fictions -- and when even Robert McCrum finds (in The Guardian) that this is: "A middlebrow triumph in a distinctly odd middlebrow prize" ... well, it confirms my decision not to be in any rush to get to it.