Hilary Mantel is the author of fifteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety, Beyond Black, the memoir Giving Up the Ghost, and the short story collection The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher. Her latest novel, The Mirror & the Light, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies were both awarded the Booker Prize.
Ben Miles is an actor whose association with Thomas Cromwell began in 2013, playing him in the stage adaptations of Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies. In 2020, he co-wrote the stage adaptation of The Mirror And The Light with Hilary Mantel, appearing again as Cromwell in the play the following year.
George Miles is an artist whose photographs focus on our relationship to place and the everyday. He has published numerous photography books, and his work is exhibited and held in collections around the world.