Bookenders in West Cork as Hilary Mantel joins David Mitchell as neighbours

Book Club pressure as  West Cork village gets all booked up by best-selling literary author residents Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell

From Wolf Hall to West Cork bungalow: Author Hilary Mantel when winning the 2009 Man Booker prize for her historical fiction novel 'Wolf Hall' is to become a West Cork resident following in footsteps of Cloud Atlas Booker-nominated writer David Mitchell 

Talk about a high-pressure book club – a West Cork village can now boast of not just one, but two world-renowned literary writers with Booker prize links as ‘locals’ - Hilary Mantel and David Mitchell.

Two-times Booker prize winner and writer of historical fiction Hilary Mantel, who won in 2009 for Wolf Hall, and again in 2012 for a sequel Bring up the Bodies was in West Cork this week, concluding a swift house purchase.