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Article: The keys to the kingdom
- Article from:
- The Independent (London, England)
- Article date:
- October 9, 2009
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Man Booker winner Hilary Mantel has injected new life into Tudor
turmoils but, as Boyd Tonkin discovers, she has first-hand
experience of living in the shadow of arbitrary power
When Hilary Mantel lived for four years in Saudi Arabia during
the 1980s, reading between the lines became an everyday art.
Official media told no sort of truth. "The Jeddah papers were just
wonderful. They were fiction," she remembers. On television, two
high-status gentlemen would be shown "shaking hands and then sitting
down for a parley. 'Prince So-and-So lauds Prince So-and-So.' They
loved this word 'lauds'. And you would see them in dumb-show,
lauding each other."
Long before Mantel pleased pundits and punters ...
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Article: All bets are on Wolf Hall for Man Booker
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August 3, 2009 ;
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