We are talked about in the street,’ writes Mantel in her autobiography. ‘Some rules have been broken. A darkness closes about our house. The air becomes jaundiced and clotted, and hangs in gaseous clouds over the rooms. Commemoration is an active process, and often a contentious one. When we memorialise the dead, we are sometimes desperate for the truth, and sometimes for a comforting illusion. We remember individually, out of grief and need. We remember as a society, with a political agenda – we reach into the past for foundation myths of our tribe, our nation, and found them on glory, or found them on grievance, but we seldom found them on cold facts. Mantel’s autobiography, Giving Up the Ghost, which was published in 2003, is now coming out in Italy. Coleen Nolan shares an update on her family as she makes a heartbreaking admission: 'I've been feeling so redundant' PICTURED: Maya Jama and Stormzy seen having heated argument in an alleyway during trip to LA after rekindling romance - as she breaks her silence

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Kim Kardashian and daughter North West dress up as Clueless characters Cher and Dionne for Halloween This week, as viewers were treated to the latest instalment of the BBC2 adaptation of Wolf Hall, Miss Mantel, 62, currently the country’s most celebrated author, spoke of the strange domestic arrangements that preoccupy her still. Interviewed on Swedish television, she said that her family was, well, ‘odd’. Mantel, who attracted criticism for her story on a previous prime minister, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher, said: “I have met him a number of times, in different settings. I agree he is a complex personality, but this much is simple – he should not be in public life. And I am sure he knows it.” British Council complies with data protection law in the UK and laws in other countries that meet internationally accepted standards.These erasures and silences made me into a novelist, but at first I found them simply disconcerting. I didn’t like making things up, which put me at a disadvantage. In the end I scrambled through to an interim position that satisfied me. I would make up a man’s inner torments, but not, for instance, the colour of his drawing room wallpaper. Abbey Clancy, 37, enjoys a family day out to Thorpe Park with rarely seen lookalike sister Elle, 26 Little Mix's Perrie Edwards and son Axel look unrecognisable after incredible Ratatouille transformation for Halloween We see the ugly face of contemporary Britain in the people on the beaches abusing exhausted refugees even as they scramble to the shore. It makes one ashamed.

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but the presenter brushes off the drama and dons a sexy Storm costume as she joins Paloma Faith and Jourdan Dunn at star-studded Halloween bash In 1977, Mantel and her husband relocated to Botswana, where they lived for five years before moving to Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, for another four years. Her experiences in Saudi Arabia inspired her to write a personal memoir, “Someone to Disturb,” which was published in the London Review of Books.Because his thoughts can only be conjectured. Even if he was a diarist or a confessional writer, he might be self-censoring. But the wallpaper – someone, somewhere, might know the pattern and colour, and if I kept on pursuing it I might find out. Then – when my character comes home weary from a 24-hour debate in the National Convention and hurls his dispatch case into a corner, I would be able to look around at the room, through his eyes. When my book eventually came out, after many years, one snide critic – who was putting me in my place, as a woman writing about men doing serious politics – complained there was a lot in it about wallpaper. Believe me, I thought, hand on heart, that there was not nearly enough. Madonna keeps her health up with Barcelona bike ride... ONE WEEK after revealing she felt UNWELL onstage following health crisis Later Rowling, Salman Rushdie and Margaret Atwood and others wrote an open letter warning that the spread of “censoriousness” was leading to “an intolerance of opposing views” and “a vogue for public shaming and ostracism”. Strictly's Bobby Brazier and Dianne Buswell appear in high spirits as they leave another gruelling rehearsal ahead of week six