A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize
winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The
Mirror and the Light In 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first
published in the London Review of Books, she wrote to the editor,
Karl Miller, 'I have no critical training whatsoever, so I am
forced to be more brisk and breezy than scholarly.' This collection
of twenty reviews, essays and pieces of memoir from the next three
decades, tells the story of what happened next. Her subjects range
far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia
where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John
Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a
brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain's last witch. There
are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe
and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the
Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall
Trilogy. Her famous lecture, 'Royal Bodies', which caused a media
frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our
imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her
first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus
strongman. Constantly illuminating, always penetrating and often
very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered
from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from
one of our greatest living writers.
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