THE ASSASSINATION OF MARGARET THATCHER

A new collection of Hilary Mantel’s short stories. The wonderfully-conceived ‘The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher,’ the story that is also the title of the overall collection, is the new one. The other stories have never been collected, but have been published in various periodical sources over the last few decades.

Nicholas Pearson, Publishing Director at 4th Estate comments: ‘A new book from Hilary Mantel is a treat. Where her last two novels explore how modern England was forged, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher shows us the country we have become. These stories are Mantel at her observant best.’

Hilary Mantel is the author of thirteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Giving Up the Ghost, Beyond Black, which was shortlisted for the 2006 Orange Prize, and Wolf Hall, which won the 2009 Man Booker Prize, the National Book Critics Circle Award for Fiction and the Walter Scott Prize and was short-listed for the 2010 Orange Prize. Her most recent novel Bring Up The Bodies won the 2012 Man Booker Prize, the 2012 Costa Book of the Year and was shortlisted for The Woman’s Prize for Literature 2013. Hilary won The David Cohen Prize for Literature 2013. Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies have both been adapted for the stage by Mike Poulton and are currently being performed to critical acclaim at the RSC, Stratford.