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.
The conclusion to The Wolf Hall Trilogy, The Mirror & the Light , was published in 2020..
Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies have both been awarded The Man Booker Prize.
She is the author of fifteen books, including A Place of Greater Safety , Beyond Black , and the memoir Giving Up the Ghost .
About author(s): Hilary Mantel is one of Britain\'s most accomplished, acclaimed and garlanded writers.
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.
Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman.
Her famous lecture, \'Royal Bodies\', which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of Royal women in society and our imagination.
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 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.
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
