Hilary Mantel's conclusion to her Cromwell trilogy is historical fiction at its magisterial best. ![]() The Mirror and the Light, by Hilary Mantel Read by Ben Miles, 38hrs 11mins She's only gone and done it again. Historical novelist Hilary Mantel was awarded an Honorary Degree of Doctor of Literature by UCD in 2016. The story of two boys sentenced to a brutal reform school in Jim Crow-era Florida, it is a devastating and essential book. The Nickel Boys, by Colson Whitehead Read by JD Jackson, Colson Whitehead, 6hrs 46mins Winner of this year's Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Colson Whitehead's follow-up to The Underground Railroad is another superb account of institutionalised racism in America. Finally, if you have no interest in the latest releases, Open Culture has a collection of 1,000 classics available as free audiobooks.
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