I got a late birthday present yesterday. ♥ It's one of my most favourite history books, in a beautifully illustrated and boxed edition from the Folio Society. The book is Keith Thomas' Religion and the Decline of Magic (1971). When I am old I want to spend my days either studying this book in depth. Or researching the everyday life of the same time ( Read more... )

Fly-by rec if you are interested in the author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light, which I am looking forward to immensely. :)

Hilary Mantel: By the Book (interview about books)

Really, it makes me just happy to read the words of an intelligent woman like hers. It helps that Religion and the Decline of Magic by Keith ( Read more... )

Hilary Mantel's second novel in her Cromwell trilogy wins the Man Booker Prize for the second time, for Bring Up the Bodies.

I only raved in comments to celta_diabolica's Hilary Mantel-posts and in private talks and mails about how utterly blown away I am by Mantel's writing. Not since I re-read all of Mary Renault's novels a couple of years ago have I been that ( Read more... )