Order of Hilary Mantel Books

Order of Hilary Mantel Books

Hilary Mantel (Photo Credit: John Haynes)
Hilary Mantel was an English author of historical fiction and literary fiction novels. She wrote the Thomas Cromwell/Wolf Hall Trilogy. Hilary studied law at the London School of Economics, but transferred to the University of Sheffield where she graduated as Bachelor of Jurisprudence. After marrying geologist Gerald McEwen, she lived in Botswana and then Saudi Arabia. Upon returning to England, she became a film critic for The Spectator while she wrote her early novels. Hilary had won several awards, including (but not limited to) the Man Booker Prize, Walter Scott Prize and the Costa Novel Prize.

Hilary passed in September 2022.

Hilary Mantel became a published author in 1985 with the novel Every Day is Mother’s Day. She followed it up the following year with the sequel Vacant Possession. Below is a list of Hilary Mantel’s books in order of when they were originally released:

Publication Order of Axon Family Books

Every Day is Mother’s Day

(1985)

Vacant Possession

(1986)

Publication Order of Thomas Cromwell Books

Wolf Hall

(2009)

Bring Up the Bodies

(2012)

Wolf Hall & Bring Up The Bodies

(2012)

The Mirror and the Light

(2020)

Publication Order of Standalone Novels

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

(1988)

Fludd

(1989)

A Place of Greater Safety

(1992)

A Change of Climate

(1994)

An Experiment in Love

(1995)

The Giant, O’Brien

(1998)

Beyond Black

(2005)

Publication Order of Short Stories/Novellas

How Shall I Know You?

(2014)

The School of English

(2015)

Publication Order of Short Story Collections

Learning to Talk

(2003)

The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher

(2014)

Mantel Pieces

(2020)

Publication Order of Non-Fiction Books

Giving Up the Ghost

(2003)

A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing (With: Ben Miles,Nicholas Pearson,Bill Hamilton,Aurora Dawson-Hunte,Jane Wymark,Lydia Leonard)

(2023)

Publication Order of The Human Predicament Books

(with Richard Hughes)

The Fox in the Attic

(1961)

The Fox in the Attic (By: Richard Hughes)

(1961)

The Wooden Shepherdess

(1973)

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Publication Order of Anthologies

Best European Fiction 2011

(2010)

By the Book

(2014)