MANTEL PIECES / ROYAL BODIES AND OTHER WRITING FROM 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 crit ical 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 a s well as t...[Read more]