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Mantel pieces, Royal Bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books, Hilary Mantel

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Mantel pieces

Hilary Mantel

Royal Bodies and other writing from the London Review of Books

From the twice Booker Prize winner and internationally bestselling Hilary Mantel, a collection of writing essays, book reviews, memoir from over thirty years contributing to the London Review of Books 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, Britains 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

Introduction: Hilary Mantel -- Letter from Hilary Mantel to Karl Miller, 1987 -- American marriage, 1988 -- Letter from Mary-Kay Wilmers to Hilary Mantel, 1988 -- Bookcase shopping in Jeddah, 1989 -- Postcard from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1989 -- John Osborne's memoirs, 1991 -- Draft of a cover caption by Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1992 -- In bed with Madonna, 1992 -- 'LRB' cover, 28 May 1992 -- On Théroigne de Méricourt, 1992 -- Postcard from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1997 -- On Christopher Marlowe, 1992 -- Fax from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1994 -- A Mohawk captive, 1994 -- Fax from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 1997 -- The murder of James Bolger, 1997 -- Postcard and fax from Hilary Mantel, 1999 -- On Marie Antoinette, 1999 -- Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2001 -- Britain's last witch, 2001 -- Email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2003 -- Meeting my stepfather, 2003 -- Card and email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2003 -- The Hair Shirt Sisterhood, 2004 -- 'LRB' covers, 24 March 2004 and 20 April 2006 -- The People's Robespierre, 2006 -- Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2005 -- On Jane Boleyn, 2008 -- Email from Hilary Mantel to the editors, 2006 -- 'LRB' cover, 9 April 2009 -- Marian devotion, 2009 -- On Danton, 2009 -- 'LRB' cover, 4 November 2010 -- Meeting the Devil, 2010 -- Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2012 -- Royal Bodies, 2013 -- Emails from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2013 -- On Charles Brandon, 2016 -- Fact-checking correspondence, 2016 -- The secrets of Margaret Pole, 2017 -- Email from Hilary Mantel to Mary-Kay Wilmers, 2019