NOVELIST Hilary Mantel could become the first person to win three major book prizes after Bring Up The Bodies was nominated for the Woman's Prize For Fiction.
NOVELIST Hilary Mantel could become the first person to win three major book prizes after Bring Up The Bodies was nominated for the Woman's Prize For Fiction.
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The British author, 60, who recently made headlines when she described the Duchess of Cambridge as a "shop-window mannequin", has already scooped the Booker prize, for the second time, and the Costa Prize.
Now her sequel Bring Up The Bodies, part of a historical trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, is in the running for the Women's Prize (formerly the Orange Prize).
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