Writer could make it a novel hat-trick

Novelist Hilary Mantel could become the first person to win all three major book prizes after Bring Up The Bodies was nominated for the Women’s Prize For Fiction.

Now her acclaimed historical sequel Bring Up The Bodies, part of a trilogy charting the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, is in the running for the Women’s Prize, formerly known as the Orange Prize.

White Teeth author Zadie Smith has also been longlisted for the gong, now in its 18th year, for London-set NW, the British writer’s fourth novel.