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“... new to standard English, but from talent, hard work and intelligent teaching.But what to say of Hilary Bailey, whose story about an Amazonian herb which procures immortality is written as if the whole of 20th-century Science Fiction hadn’t happened: written as if for publication in the Strand Magazine for 1899? The self-consciousness of the style ...”

“... is grim, colloquial and energetic, as befits the out-of doors storyteller. Hannie Richards, in Hilary Bailey’s novel of that title, gets about. This is tongue-in cheek picaresque, with an adventuress for heroine. Hannie, for a fee, accepts preposterous commissions. It’s nothing to her to snatch a putative messiah from the clutches of ...”

“... naturalism, so much so that, in her introduction to the Virago edition of The Beauties and Furies, Hilary Bailey seems disconcerted that ‘this great writer of naturalism’ should have produced a novel so resistant to a naturalist reading. (Any novel in which a prostitute advertises her wares by reciting the poetry of Baudelaire is scarely in the ...”

“... Newington Four plus another four libertarian and anarchist activists entered the dock at the Old Bailey for what was to prove the longest criminal trial in Britain. After six months, the original four (John Barker, Hilary Creek, Anna Mendelson and Jim Greenfield) were convicted by a majority verdict of conspiracy ‘with ...”

“... other distortions of our criminal process. Over the last fifteen years, research by writers like Hilary Allen, Pat Carlen, Susan Edwards and Carol Smart has begun to give us a clearer picture of how women are treated in the criminal process – by the police, by their lawyers, in court, in prison, as victims. Certain important themes stand out. Because of ...”

“... detriment of necessary work in the Courts? The person tried and convicted at the war-damaged Old Bailey was a stout and ailing Scotswoman called Helen Duncan, whom few people loved and many exploited. She was not a witch in any popular sense of the word; she did not fly, wear a pointed hat or have congress with the devil, and neither she nor her followers ...”

“... a lovely lad Rafa Nadal is I shall scream.’ ‘Don’t ever make the mistake of underestimating Hilary Mantel.’ ‘I don’t want to give a cool appraisal of Jeremy Irons … I just want to boil him in oil.’ She’s like Christ enthroned in a gilded Quattrocentro painting, attended by apostles, the legions of the damned at her feet: Marianne ...”

“... all of them are occluded, attenuated, elaborated, in one way or another. This is one reason, as Hilary Mantel, for example, has noted, that the novels are easier to follow when you already know their stories in outline (as might also happen with fiction that embroiders well-known personalities from history, like Robespierre or Thomas Cromwell). You might ...”

“... landowners to lease to people who’d like to grow food. Four months before the election campaign, Hilary Benn announced a modest £50 million funding top-up for food and farming R&D over the next five years. In Food 2030, Defra insists that Britain must find a way to farm and fish ‘sustainably’ – that word again – setting out targets and measurements ...”