From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution.

Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, yet also erratic and untrustworthy. As these young men, key figures of the French Revolution, taste the addictive delights of power, the darker side of the period's political ideals is unleashed - and all must face the horror that follows.

About the Author

Hilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.

Reviews

'You could read this a dozen times and not come to the end of its originality, its moral intelligence, its gargantuan flair' Katherine Rundell, author of Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne

'Superbly readable...an assured and strange masterpiece' Sunday Telegraph

'One of the best English novels of the 20th century' Diana Athill, The Oldie

'Hilary Mantel has soaked herself in the history of the period...and a striking picture emerges of the exhilaration, dynamic energy and stark horror of those fearful days' Daily Telegraph

'I cannot think of a historical novel as good as this until one goes back to Marguerite Yourcenar's "Memoirs of Hadrian", published forty years ago.' Evening Standard

'Marvellous...It was the best of times; it was the worst of times. Hilary Mantel captures it all' Time Out

'Intriguing...She has grasped what made these young revolutionaries - and with them the French Revolution - tick' Independent

'Crafty tensions, twists and high drama...a bravura display of her endlessly inventive, eerily observant style' Times Literary Supplement

'An extraordinary and overwhelming novel...immensely detailed and yet fast-moving...she has set herself to capture the excitement and intellectual fervour of the period. She does it admirably...a tour de force' Scotsman

'Riveting...the book overflows with a natural storyteller's energy' New Yorker

'Much, much more than a historical novel, this is an addictive study of power, and the price that must be paid for it...a triumph' Cosmopolitan

'This is a high-class historical blockbuster' Red Magazine

'Hilary Mantel has pulled off the apparently impossible...an ambitious, gripping epic' Vogue

Book Information
ISBN 9780007250554
Author Hilary Mantel
Format Paperback
Page Count 880
Imprint Fourth Estate Ltd
Publisher HarperCollins Publishers
Weight(grams) 610g
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 56mm