John Guy tells Hay festival applicants cite author in interviews and says blur between fact and fiction is troubling
One of Britain’s most respected Tudor historians has expressed concern that prospective students imagine Hilary Mantel’s novels are fact.
John Guy told the Hay literary festival in Wales that Mantel’s Thomas Cromwell novels needed to be enjoyed for what they were: fiction.
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