Some of the best books by women for International Women's Day
Acquaint yourself with these female writers, and you'll make a friend for life in their books
Hilary Mantel was a well established writer long before Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies won her two Booker Prizes in two years. But it's this trilogy that have really made people pay attention. There's time to read this gorgeous historical fiction before the final tome, The Mirror and the Light comes crashing out into the market next year. The long-awaited last book is going to make Game of Thrones look like pick-up-sticks.
Anyone who was forced to study the Tudors owes themselves the experience of undoing any boring lessons with Mantel's historical masterpieces.
