A Place of Greater Safety

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Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.

Georges-Jacques Danton is zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre is small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins is a genius of rhetoric, yet also erratic and untrustworthy. As these key figures of the French Revolution taste the addictive delights of power, the darker side of the period’s political ideals is unleashed.

Raising the Dead

Rebecca Willis on Hilary Mantel, A Place of Greater Safety

Someone must have recommended it. Otherwise there’s no way, twenty years ago, I’d have picked up an 880-page book about the French Revolution. Even a novel. But I did pick up Hilary Mantel’s A...