This audio recording of Hilary Mantel in conversation with Rosemary Sullivan was recorded on stage at Harbourfront Reading Series in 1997. It is used with the kind permission of the Toronto International Festival of Authors. Thanks to TIFA for allowing us access to their archives for this series. Find out more about the Festival and its annual festival along with many other activities at FestivalOfAuthors.ca.

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Works by Hilary Mantel in Toronto Public Library's collection:

An Experiment in Love (print edition) (ebook)Wolf Hall (Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book One) (print edition) (ebook) (audiobook)Bring Up the Bodies (Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book Two) (print edition, ebook, audiobook) The Mirror and the Light (Wolf Hall Trilogy, Book Three) (print edition) ebook) (audiobook)A Change of Climate (print edition) (ebook)Vacant Possession (print edition) (ebook)A Place of Greater Safety (print edition) (ebook)Eight Months on Ghazzah Street (print edition)

Other Related Books or Materials in our collections:

The Betrayal of Anne Frank by Rosemary Sullivan (print edition) (ebook) (audiobook)Stalin's Daughter : the Extraordinary and Tumultuous life of Svetlana Alliluyeva by Rosemary Sullivan(print edition) (ebook) (audiobook)Wolf Hall - Masterpiece Theatre's 2015 movie adaptation (DVD)

About the Host

Randy Boyagoda is a novelist and professor of English at the University of Toronto, where he serves as advisor on civil discourse and vice-dean undergraduate, in the Faculty of Arts and Science. He has written seven books, including four novels. His work has been nominated for the Scotiabank Giller Prize and the IMPAC Dublin Literary Prize and named a Globe and Mail Best Book of the Year and New York Times Book Review Editor’s Choice selection. He regularly contributes essays, opinions and reviews to publications including the Atlantic, the New York Times, the Financial Times of London, the Times Literary Supplement, and the Globe and Mail, and appears frequently on CBC Radio. A former president of PEN Canada, Boyagoda lives in Toronto with his wife and their four daughters.

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Thanks to the Toronto International Festival of Authors (TIFA) for allowing TPL access to their archives to feature some of the best-known writers in the world from moments in the past. Thanks as well to Library and Archives Canada for generously allowing TPL access to these archives.