Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books by Hilary Mantel

Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books

Hilary Mantel

352 pages first pub 2020 (editions)

nonfiction essays challenging informative slow-paced
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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 rev...

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