Hilary Mantel
Three-Book Edition
A Place of Greater Safety
Beyond Black
The Giant, O’Brien
About the Author
Hilary Mantel is the author of thirteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost. Her two most recent novels, Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, have both been awarded the Man Booker Prize. Bring Up the Bodies also won the Costa Book of the Year.
Also by Hilary Mantel
Bring Up the Bodies
Wolf Hall
Beyond Black
Every Day is Mother’s Day
Vacant Possession
Eight Months on Ghazzah Street
Fludd
A Place of Greater Safety
A Change of Climate
An Experiment in Love
The Giant, O’Brien
Learning to Talk
Non-fiction
Giving Up the Ghost
Table of Contents
Excerpt from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel
Hilary Mantel
A Place of Greater Safety
Contents
I. Life as a Battlefield (1763–1774)
I. The Theory of Ambition (1784–1787)
II. Rue Condé: Thursday Afternoon (1787)
III. Maximilien: Life and Times (1787)
IV. A Wedding, a Riot, a Prince of the Blood (1787–1788)
VI. Last Days of Titonville (1789)
II. Liberty, Gaiety, Royal Democracy (1790)
IV. More Acts of the Apostles (1791)
II. Danton: His Portrait Made (1791)
III. Three Blades, Two in Reserve (1791–1792)