A brilliant 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 the world''s most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers. Uniquely, her last two novels, Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring up the Bodies , both won the Man Booker Prize for Fiction. In this new collection of ten stories, all her gifts of characterization, observation and intelligence are once again fully on display. With settings ranging from Saudi Arabia to Greece to London, they reveal a great writer at the peak of her powers.