A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of The Mirror and the Light
“Mantel Pieces” is a collection of essays and reviews by Hilary Mantel, a celebrated British writer known for her historical novels such as “Wolf Hall” and “Bring Up the Bodies.” The book was published in 2020 and covers a wide range of topics, including literature, politics, and gender.
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.
The essays and reviews included in “Mantel Pieces” were originally published in various newspapers and magazines over the course of Mantel’s career, and they offer insight into her perspectives on a range of subjects. Some of the topics covered in the book include the role of women in literature, the political landscape of modern Britain, and the challenges of writing historical fiction.
In addition to her commentary on these topics, Mantel also reflects on her own life and career in the book. She discusses her experiences as a writer, her struggles with illness, and her approach to writing historical fiction. Overall, “Mantel Pieces” offers a unique glimpse into the mind of one of the most acclaimed writers of our time, and it is sure to be of interest to fans of Mantel’s work as well as anyone interested in literature, history, and contemporary culture.
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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