Mantel Pieces: The New Book from The Sunday Times Best Selling Author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy
Hilary Mantel
Condition: BRAND NEW. Format: Hardback. ISBN: 9780008429973. Publisher: Fourth Estate. Age Range: Adult. Overview. Mantel Pieces brings together twenty of Hilary Mantel's finest essays, reviews and pieces of memoir, written for the London Review of Books over three decades. Ranging from Robespierre to Madonna, from Saudi Arabia to the Tudor court, this collection showcases the razor-sharp intelligence and dry wit that made Mantel one of Britain's most celebrated writers. Fans of the Wolf Hall trilogy will recognise the same forensic historical insight, here turned to essays, letters and diary extracts. A perfect gift for readers of literary non-fiction.. About the Book. Before her Booker Prize-winning fiction, Hilary Mantel was a fearless essayist for the London Review of Books. Mantel Pieces gathers the best of that writing since her first LRB piece in 1987. Her subjects are dazzlingly wide-ranging: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite Report, her years living in Saudi Arabia, the Bulger case, playwright John Osborne, the Virgin Mary and pop icon Madonna, and a brilliant reassessment of Helen Duncan, Britain's last convicted witch. Several essays revisit the Tudor world she made…