Margaret Thatcher Elbows Out Thomas Cromwell on Hilary Mantel’s Desk

WORDS Posted: January 17, 2014 8:00 am

Turns out that The Mirror and the Light, the final volume in Mantel’s Cromwell trilogy, will not be her next book- that will be a collection of short stories titled The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. (Mantel does have a bit of news on the Cromwell front, though.)

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