I'd say this is very much a collection for Mantel fans and for those who loved her Wolf Hall trilogy and her earlier epic, A Place of Greater Safety, about the architects of the French Revolution.

We love Imperfect Interiors' use and subtle blend of traditional with mid-century modern accents for this family home in Suffolk. The reviews themselves are also only occasionally interesting and are really sub-par as far as reviews go. Hilary Mantel was the bestselling author of many novels including Wolf Hall, which won the Man Booker Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award for fiction.Each showed a single woman seated on a simple chair and leaning against the mantelpiece around a fireplace. On the mantelpiece, opt for elegant candlesticks to add height and variety to the display, whilst for the hearth, lower, thicker candles are the best option,’ says Sam Hood, co-founder and chief creative officer at AMARA Living. It could be a microcosm of their life, with postcards and letters displayed alongside decorative objects. When planning your mantelscape, opt for accessories with a common colour thread or pattern to create a cohesive look, whether that’s tonal or one colour. Instead she takes the book's subject—usually a figure from the Tudor court or the French Revolution, or else a female saint or mystic—and spins out her own narrative of the person's life and historical context.

The ratings/reviews displayed here may not be representative of every listing on this page, or of every review for these listings. We don’t share your credit card details with third-party sellers, and we don’t sell your information to others. A royal body, a female royal body, is only of interest because it is something that has no personality. These oak beam mantel pieces for fireplace surrounds are created from partially dried new untreated oak sleepers. I came for the articles on the French Revolutionaries and the Tudor Court but thoroughly enjoyed other essays too.There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy.

Any fan of Hilary Mantel is going to be particularly at home amongst this collection of "reviews, essays and pieces of memoir". Often overlooked when choosing a fireplace, the back panel and hearth are, in fact, the foundation of your look.If you'd like to update your fireplace in keeping with the period in which your property was built, marble was a stone favoured during the Regency and Georgian periods, whereas metal units look best in a modern home. You’ll need to tie in your mantelpiece ideas with your fireplace ideas before you get started for a cohesive look, whether you’re after modern fireplace ideas or fireplace ideas for small living rooms. When it comes to building character in a room, there's nothing more dramatic than a well-designed fireplace. m) wide, having two intermediate supports to carry the hood; the stone flues are carried up between the tracery of an immense window above.