Adichie says she now prefers to read non-fiction as she senses so many novelists holding back due to “social censure”. But it feels like she too is holding back.
As the BBC prepares to air her hard-hitting Reith Lecture, the celebrated author of Half of a Yellow Sun talks about truth, trans rights and our ‘misogyny-drenched’ planet. Plus: read an extract<br><br>
The celebrated British novelist died on Sept. 22, 2022 at the age of 70. Mantel was best known for the popular Wolf Hall Trilogy, a fictionalized account of the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell.