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These are the best new books for giving this holiday, organized by the type of people you have on your list.

These are the best new books for giving this holiday, organized by the type of people you have on your list.

These are the best new books for giving this holiday, organized by the type of people you have on your list.

These are the best new books for giving this holiday, organized by the type of people you have on your list.

Categorising fiction may help to sell books, but it says little about how writers write or readers read

The late HILARY MANTEL believed perfumes are not so much objects as performances, but we lack a process to appraise them. In this essay, which appeared in Vogue, she makes sense of scents.

A substantial anthology of Mantel’s non-fiction work, one that would appeal to anyone with an interest in lucid thought

The book is a selection of her writing for journals, newspapers and public lectures, published together for the first time.

The book shares secrets – Mantel’s own alongside those of the writers, historical figures and places she describes.

This collection of essays and journalism is a poignant reminder of the novelist’s expansive mind, and of what more she might have achieved