{"product_id":"mantel-pieces-royal-bodies-and-other-writing-from-the-london-review-of-books-paperback","title":"Mantel Pieces: Royal Bodies and Other Writing from the London Review of Books - Paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHilary Mantel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e \u003cstrong\u003eA stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of \u003cem\u003eThe Mirror and the Light\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1987, when Hilary Mantel was first published in the \u003cem\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/em\u003e, 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHer 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. 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 \u003cem\u003eLRB \u003c\/em\u003ediaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConstantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, \u003cem\u003eMantel Pieces\u003c\/em\u003e is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eHilary Mantel is the author of seventeen books, including \u003cem\u003eA Place of Greater Safety\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eBeyond Black\u003c\/em\u003e, the memoir \u003cem\u003eGiving Up the Ghost\u003c\/em\u003e and the short story collection \u003cem\u003eThe Assassination of Margaret Thatcher\u003c\/em\u003e. Her latest novel, \u003cem\u003eThe Mirror \u0026amp; the Light\u003c\/em\u003e, won the Walter Scott Prize for Historical Fiction, while \u003cem\u003eWolf Hall\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eBring Up the Bodies\u003c\/em\u003e were both awarded the Booker Prize.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 352\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.9 x 7.7 x 5 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e November 30, 2021\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51767871504672,"sku":"9780008430009","price":18.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0974\/9764\/5344\/files\/b06434b9a9961011891cfd89c2fbaad9.webp?v=1780319283","url":"https:\/\/ebocreations.com\/products\/mantel-pieces-royal-bodies-and-other-writing-from-the-london-review-of-books-paperback","provider":"The E-Book Oasis LLC","version":"1.0","type":"link"}