Her trilogy's unfinished third novel, provisionally named The Mirror And The Light, is already being earmarked for a TV adaptation
The director of hit TV drama Wolf Hall has spoken to writer Hilary Mantel about making another series based on the as-yet-unfinished third book in her historical trilogy.
The BBC2 show, which merged Mantel's Booker Prize winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies, starred Mark Rylance as Thomas Cromwell and Emmy-nominated Damian Lewis as King Henry VIII.