The Very Rev Andrew Nunn, Dean of Southwark Cathedral, welcomed guests to celebrate Hilary Mantel, author of the celebrated trilogy Booker Prize-winning Wolf Hall, Bring Up the Bodies and The Mirror and the Light.
Bill Hamilton, her and other Jane Austen novels, seen from the point of view of Mary Bennet. Actor Aurora Dawson-Hunte, who was in the stage adaptation of , gave a reading from the unfinished novel.