Bring up the Bodies will be shorter than the 672-page Wolf Hall, Mantel added.
Bring Up The Bodies is out now in the UK in hardback, published by Fourth Estate.
The most predictable inclusion is Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, a worthy sequel to the Booker-winning Wolf Hall.
She has already started the first sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, which will focus on the downfall of Anne Boleyn.
"Bring up the Bodies" and "Wolf Hall" are being adapted into a six-part series for the BBC and stage plays.
She will conclude the nine-day festival with a talk about her acclaimed novel Bring Up The Bodies on Sunday 24 March.
The book was previously shortlisted for the 2012 Man Booker Prize, which eventually went to Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies.
Booker and Costa-prize winner Hilary Mantel is in the running for another literary award for her best-selling Bring Up The Bodies.
Bring Up the Bodies, which will continue the story of King Henry VIII's chief minister, Thomas Cromwell, will be published in May 2012.
Winterhart is up against Hilary Mantel's Bring Up the Bodies, winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize, as well as Stephen May's Life!
He's such good company, indeed, that it takes a while in Bring Up The Bodies before you realise quite how brutal he is.
Her historical novel, Bring Up The Bodies, is up against 19 other titles including six debuts and two previous winners in the long list.
It is Hilary Mantel's second award for Bring Up The Bodies, a historical novel about Thomas Cromwell, which also won the 2012 Man Booker Prize.
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies are currently being adapted into a six-part series for BBC Two, expected to be broadcast late next year.
According to the latest figures, Mantel's Bring up the Bodies has sold 108, 342 copies, which is more than the other 11 Man Booker longlisted novels combined.
BBC: Man Booker Prize won by Hilary Mantel's Bring up the Bodies
The double-bill of Mantel's Wolf Hall and Bring up the Bodies premieres in the Swan Theatre, with the two works playing in repertoire from December to March.
Mantel's Booker Prize-winning novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up The Bodies chart the rise and fall of Thomas Cromwell, a powerful minister in the court of Henry VIII.
Bring Up the Bodies, winner of this year's prize, continues Cromwell's story, to be concluded in The Mirror and the Light, the culmination of Mantel's Wolf Hall trilogy.
And Booker and Costa-prize winner Hilary Mantel won the literary award for her best-selling novel, Bring Up The Bodies, beating former Booker rival Will Self and debut novelist, Kerry Hudson.
By the end of Bring Up The Bodies the reader is in a similar position: seduced by Cromwell's charisma step-by-step into ready acceptance of his power, however unscrupulously he wields it.
Wolf Hall, the first of her trilogy about Thomas Cromwell and Henry VIII, has already more than doubled this week, rising from 15th to 7th on the bestseller list, while sales of the sequel, Bring Up the Bodies, rose by 69%.
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