A stunning collection of essays and memoir from twice Booker Prize winner and
international bestseller Hilary Mantel, author of the Wolf Hall Trilogy
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