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Geri Horner took to her Instagram Stories on Sunday, where she paid tribute following the news of a sad death earlier this week.The singer posted a photo of the late author Dame Hilary Mantel, who died on Thursday, with the news announced the following day.MORE: Geri Horner shares powerful message in stunning outfitMum-of-two Geri captioned the image: "Brilliant." She then went on: "RIP. Hilary Mantel.

https://t. co/SM5UlOBFtwBen Miles, who played Thomas Cromwell in the Royal Shakespeare Company’s stage adaptations of the Wolf Hall novels, also paid tribute. “She was an extraordinary woman.

The Associated Press. The cause of death was a stroke, The New York Times reported, citing her literary agent Bill Hamilton.

K.J. Yossman The worlds of publishing and screen have paid tribute to author Hilary Mantel, who died on Thursday (Sept. 22) at the age of 70. Peter Kosminsky, who directed the BBC adaptation of Mantel’s novel “Wolf Hall,” told Variety: “A great light has gone out. The word ‘great’ is used very easily these days but nobody could dispute that it’s an appropriate epithet for Dame Hilary Mantel. If you look at the scale of her achievements, the impact she’s had, the breadth of her knowledge and reading… She’s someone whom people went to for thoughts and opinions on a variety of different novels ad nonfiction works. People recognized her for the massive intellect as she was. It’s hard to imagine a world without her.”

the Booker Prize-winning author who turned Tudor power politics into page-turning fiction in the acclaimed “Wolf Hall” trilogy of historical novels, has died. She was 70.Mantel died “suddenly yet peacefully” surrounded by close family and friends, publisher HarperCollins said Friday.Mantel is credited with reenergizing historical fiction with “Wolf Hall” and two sequels about the 16th-century English powerbroker Thomas Cromwell, right-hand man to King Henry VIII.The publisher said Mantel was “one of the greatest English novelists of this century.”“Her beloved works are considered modern classics.

Manori Ravindran International Editor Hilary Mantel, the two-time Booker Prize-winning British novelist best known for the books “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies,” has died. She was 70. Her death was confirmed by her publishers 4th Estate Books and HarperCollins U.K. on Friday afternoon local time. A cause of death has not yet been shared. In an identical statement posted on social media, 4th Estate Books and HarperCollins wrote: “We are heartbroken at the death of our beloved author, Dame Hilary Mantel, and our thoughts are with her friends and family, especially her husband, Gerald. This is a devastating loss and we can only be grateful she left us with such a magnificent body of work.”

Hilary Mantel, the author of Wolf Hall and a string of other hugely successful historical fiction books, has died aged 70, her publisher has said.

NEW YORK -- The publisher of such blockbusters as Dan Brown's “The Da Vinci Code” and John Grisham's “The Firm” has a memoir coming out next year.Stephen Rubin's “Words and Music: Confessions of an Optimist” will be published by Applause Books in January 2023.While running such publishers as Doubleday and Henry Holt & Company over the past 30-plus years, Rubin worked on some of the era's most talked about books, from “The Da Vinci Code” and “The Firm” to Michael Wolff's “Fire and Fury.” He also published Bill O'Reilly's million-selling “Killing” history series and the Booker Prize-winning British novelists Ian McEwan and Hilary Mantel.“This book will give you a march through trade publishing from the '80s through today,” Rubin, who left Henry Holt in 2020 and is currently a consulting publisher at Simon & Schuster, said Thursday.

Meghan McCain just really doesn’t care about anything to do with the British royal family. “I would literally rather eat a muddy tire than watch or have anything with Camilla and [Prince] Charles,” she joked on The View. “I find them like the most boring people in the world and I can say that cause I’m an American.”

Meghan McCain just really doesn’t care about anything to do with the British royal family. “I would literally rather eat a muddy tire than watch or have anything with Camila and [Prince] Charles,” she joked on The View. “I find them like the most boring people in the world and I can say that cause I’m an American.”

eventual reign as king, according to an award-winning UK author and dame.“I think it’s the end game. I don’t know how much longer the institution will go on,” Dame Hilary Mantel told the Telegraph.“I’m not sure if it will outlast William.

LONDON -- Best-selling British novelist Hilary Mantel and American author Anne Tyler are among 13 writers on a U.S.-dominated list of contenders for the prestigious Booker Prize for fiction. Mantel was named among competitors for the 50,000-pound ($63,000) literary prize Tuesday for the “The Mirror and the Light,” the third installment in her trilogy about Tudor power broker Thomas Cromwell.

Jeremy Irons, Tilda Swinton and Hilary Mantel are collaborating to read Coleridge’s most famous poem.

The 16 novels included on the Women’s Prize for Fiction longlist have been revealed.