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An extraordinary, epic novel set during the French Revolution, winner of the Sunday Express Book of the Year Award.Read More

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    A gripping and celebrated epic from Hilary Mantel the Booker Prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Beyond Black' this is the story of three young men who find themselves in Paris at the dawn of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric charming and handsome yet also erratic and untrustworthy. As these young men key figures of the French Revolution taste the addictive delights of power the darker side of the period's political ideals is unleashed -- and all must face the horror that follows.

  • TheBookPeople

    An extraordinary and brilliant work of historical imagination -- this is Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. A spellbinding novel which recounts the events between the fall of the Ancient Regime and the peak of the Terror, as seen through the eyes of the French Revolution's three protagonists -- Georges-Jacques Danton, Maximilien Robespierre and Camille Desmoulins, men whose mix of ambition, idealism, and ego helped unleash the darker side of the Revolution's ideals and brought them eventually to their own tragic ends. Critically acclaimed upon first publication, 'A Place of Greater Safety' is one of Mantel's most celebrated works of fiction.

  • Foyles

    From the double Man Booker prize-winner comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution. Georges-Jacques Danton: zealous, energetic and debt-ridden. Maximilien Robespierre: small, diligent and terrified of violence. And Camille Desmoulins: a genius of rhetoric, charming and handsome, yet also erratic and untrustworthy. As these young men, key figures of the French Revolution, taste the addictive delights of power, the darker side of the period's political ideals is unleashed - and all must face the horror that follows.

  • BookDepository

    A Place of Greater Safety : Paperback : HarperCollins Publishers : 9780007250554 : : 29 Oct 2009 : From the double Man Booker prize-winning author of Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror & the Light comes an extraordinary work of historical imagination - this is Hilary Mantel's epic novel of the French Revolution.

  • 000725055X
  • 9780007250554
  • Hilary Mantel
  • 4 March 2010
  • Fourth Estate
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 880
  • (Reissue)
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