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Mantel: Novelists make history 'transparent'

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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". (Image: Dame Hilary Mantel, credit: Getty Images)

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