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    Mantel: Novelists make history 'transparent'
The historical author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, Dame Hilary Mantel, will explore how a writer combines facts with imagination during the ÃÛÑ¿´«Ã½ Reith Lectures.
She says historical records are "not neutral but are interpretations from historians" and she argues that "novelists make this interpretation transparent".
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