Three-Book Edition: A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant O’Brien

Three-Book Edition: A Place of Greater Safety; Beyond Black; The Giant O’Brien
Hilary Mantel

From the twice Man Booker Prize-winning author of Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies, a collection of three novels: A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black and The Giant, O’Brien.A Place of Greater Safety is a spellbinding, epic historical novel which recounts the stirring but blood-thirsty events of the French Revolution, as seen through the eyes of the Revolution’s three protagonists – Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille DesmoulinsIn The Giant, O’Brien, Charles O’Brien, bard and giant, is led from Ireland to seek his fortune beyond the seas in England. The cynical are moved by his flights of romance; the craven stirred by his tales of epic deeds. But in London is famed surgeon, John Hunter, who buys dead men from the gallows and babies’ corpses by the inch – and he wants the Giant’s bones.In Beyond Black we meet Alison Hart – medium by trade. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors. But Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift and behind her plump, smiling and bland public persona is a desperate woman.

Hilary Mantel

Three-Book Edition

A Place of Greater Safety

Beyond Black

The Giant, O’Brien

About the Author

Hilary Mantel is the author of thirteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost. Her two most recent novels, Wolf Hall and its sequel Bring Up the Bodies, have both been awarded the Man Booker Prize. Bring Up the Bodies also won the Costa Book of the Year.

Also by Hilary Mantel

Bring Up the Bodies

Wolf Hall

Beyond Black

Every Day is Mother’s Day

Vacant Possession

Eight Months on Ghazzah Street

Fludd

A Place of Greater Safety

A Change of Climate

An Experiment in Love

The Giant, O’Brien

Learning to Talk

Non-fiction

Giving Up the Ghost

Table of Contents

Title Page (#udd74a2d2-ce38-5e76-91b9-f2092dd07453)

About the Author (#uefd079eb-5d7b-59d2-8cb9-61cf4af0956a)

Also by Hilary Mantel (#u92ad8367-6d9f-5d32-8437-6c4f548c8098)

A Place of Greater Safety (#u6bb79c68-ffeb-5fc2-ae86-c1dfdc24f773)

Beyond Black (#litres_trial_promo)

The Giant, O’Brien (#litres_trial_promo)

Excerpt from Wolf Hall by Hilary Mantel (#litres_trial_promo)

Copyright (#litres_trial_promo)

About the Publisher (#litres_trial_promo)

A Place of Greater Safety

Hilary Mantel

A Place of Greater Safety

Contents

Cover (#ucfb89560-98ae-5538-bea6-d84ea7913b36)

Title Page (#ue82329a5-6027-5393-9fb7-a383044be0cd)

Dedication (#uaa2f3fdc-fc7c-5f85-b9d4-da498aa21b66)

Author’s Note (#uf3697c1d-d0a3-5810-ae21-23376b8b2690)

Cast of Characters (#uc0d7cf41-6b6d-5c1e-aaf6-051b29c64484)

Map of Revolutionary Paris (#u6a5276da-1bc5-5a5f-849f-0416258d8a76)

PART ONE (#udce0140a-ce4b-58d2-85b1-0e6a8feea2fa)

I. Life as a Battlefield (1763–1774) (#ubaf04406-4abe-5338-a2d9-c366479b0a4f)

II. Corpse-Candle (1774–1780) (#uec32967c-dd12-5b3b-a93b-8659482ff18d)

III. At Maître Vinot’s (1780) (#u06be9738-7254-52a4-b83e-538e645dc7ab)

PART TWO (#uebf8f400-b371-54d2-8ae4-28179139fdea)

I. The Theory of Ambition (1784–1787) (#uffa6e530-c41c-5d97-87f2-3684590af2c8)