The Assassination of Margaret ThatcherA brilliant and rather transgressive collection of short stories from the double Man Booker Prize winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies. Hilary Mantel is one of Britains most accomplished and acclaimed writers. In these ten bracingly subversive tales, all her gifts of characterisation and observation are fully engaged, summoning forth the horrors so often concealed behind everyday fa? ades. Childhood cruelty is played out behind the

trying desperately to unravel why her world was so suddenly blown apart

a whirlwind into which Adi and Horowitz are thrust - along with the sister of a young girl whose real-life

Uncle does not often go on holiday as very few hotels provide beds big enough for elephants

Marked out from the start by curious coincidence

Forced to live apart

dressed all in black

his superior

Baldwin and Puttock learn that Moll was a pious girl

Samuel Carver Carver is a good guy who makes bad things happen to bad people

fictional gets real - and all life's givens get given a second chance

As with Alan Bennett's previous two plays

The invasion of France is under way and the British Navy has called upon the services of Major Richard Sharpe