bestselling author hilary mantel has died. the british author of the historical novel wolf hall was the two time winner of the booker prize, england's highest literary award. and as the holiday months approach, various booksellers and literary groups are releasing their lists of best books of 2020 to being named to one of those lists can serve to boost book sales as much as they do an author's prestige. here's a few of the recent announcements from barnes and noble, some of their best books of 2022 include ben mcintyre's prisoners of the castle. it's a history of the nazi maximum security prison that was used to house escape prone allied prisoners. there's also i'm glad my mom died. this is by director and singer jennette mccurdy. it's a memoir of her time as a child star in hollywood and her victimization at the hands of her mother and the television industry. and one book on this year's barnes and noble list won't be released until november. it's former first lady michelle obama's forthcoming book, the light we carry. it's a

bestselling author hilary mantel has died. the british author of the historical novel wolf hall was the two time winner of the booker prize, england's highest literary award. and as the holiday months approach, various booksellers and literary groups are releasing their lists of best books of 2020 to being named to one of those lists can serve to boost book sales as much as they do an author's prestige. here's a few of the recent announcements from barnes and noble, some of their best books of 2022 include ben mcintyre's prisoners of the castle. it's a history of the nazi maximum security prison that was used to house escape prone allied prisoners. there's also i'm glad my mom died. this is by director and singer jennette mccurdy. it's a memoir of her time as a child star in hollywood and her victimization at the hands of her mother and the television industry. and one book on this year's barnes and noble list won't be released until november. it's former first lady michelle obama's forthcoming book, the light we carry. it's a

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well, you had the duty of writing the obit for hilary mantel recently. no, we had a we had a wonderful obit from from the obituaries desk there. and i, i sort of wrapped up a little bit of the online reaction that was happening around her death that was such a, i think a really devastating loss for people because she she seemed, first of all, even though she had been ill, health much of her life, there was still something shocking about it. there wasn't really news. she was that sick. and she was 70. she also just seemed like someone who, in addition to being a genuine genius, was a very good person and delightful and everyone really loved being in her company. so there were a lot of personal reminiscences, too, about losing her, as well as literary ones. we kind of just wrapped it up for people, gave them a sense of her. for a lot of people who have read the post book reviews for a long time, michael dauda is a must read. absolutely. yes, i actually just i'm coming from coffee with michael dirt, which was a total because he's he's of great stories but a

congratulations, i wonder how it feels to join the likes of salman rushdie, hilary mantel, amazing authorsought it would come out, maybe some people might like it, and then we got the booker long list. that was phenomenal. every step, the party has continued, and yeah, i was going to have a drink and go home, and this is fabulous. turns out it's a better story and you get to win. as i said, it's a ghost story and your protagonist wakes up dead on the first page of the novel and has to spend seven moons, seven days trying to find out who killed him and expose the horrors and atrocities of war. how important is it for you to get the message of the sri lankan civil war out to a wider audience? i wasn't thinking in those terms, i was writing a murder mystery and it just seemed that every sri lankan atrocity, we never deal with it, we kind ofjust move on. the idea of a ghost story where the dead get to speak, i just thought that was an absurd enough conceit for a novel. and that's really what i was doing. but, yeah, 1989 was a grim time in our history, forgotten by many, including people in sri