Dame Hilary Mantel, one of Britain’s most accomplished and acclaimed writers and author of the current BBC series Wolf Hall will be visiting Manchester Metropolitan University on Tuesday 9th June 2015 to deliver an evening reading to academics, students and members of the general public.
Mantel is the author of fourteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost. Both her non-fictional and fictional writing, on modern representations of royalty and the assassination of Margaret Thatcher, have generated extraordinary media storms and widespread popular debate of her work. Her two most recent novels, Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, have both been awarded the Man Booker Prize – an unprecedented literary achievement.
MMU greatly looks forward to welcoming one of the most high-profile authors writing in English today, and hopes that many staff and students, as well as avid readers from across Manchester and beyond, will be able to join us for this exciting event.
An Evening with Hilary Mantel
Geoffrey Manton Lecture Theatre 1, Manchester Metropolitan University
Wine Reception at 5pm
Reading at 6pm
Tickets £10
