A Place of Greater Safety (4th Estate Matchbook Classics)

An extraordinary work of historical imagination – this is Hilary Mantel’s epic novel of the French Revolution.

One of the ten books – novels, memoirs and one very unusual biography – that make up the 4th Estate Matchbook Classics’ series, a stunningly redesigned collection of some of the best loved titles on our backlist.

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.

• Hilary Mantel is the first British author to have won two Booker prizes, the only woman to have done so and the only writer to have won with two consecutive novels.

• Part of the Matchbook Classics series: ten modern classics from the 4th Estate list – some of the greatest fiction and non-fiction of the last 30 years.

• Stunningly packaged in an innovative and unusual format – with a back flap that folds around and tucks in under the front cover, rather like a matchbook.