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Adaptation
Hilary Mantel on how fiction changes when adapted for stage or screen.

Can These Bones Live?
Hilary Mantel on how historical fiction can make the past come to life.

Silence Grips the Town
The story of how historical obsession killed a Polish writer, told by Hilary Mantel.

The Iron Maiden
How do we construct our pictures of the past asks Hilary Mantel.

The Day Is for the Living
Art can bring the dead back to life, argues the late novelist Hilary Mantel.