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Writers

Hilary Mantel

The Princess Myth

On Princess Diana of Wales.

Hilary Mantel The Guardian Aug 2017 15min Permalink

Royal Bodies

On women, monarchy, and breeding.

Hilary Mantel London Review of Books Feb 2013 20min Permalink

Arts Music

Plain Girl’s Revenge Made Flesh

“When constant revisionism and re-invention is under way, what does it profit a biographer to drag the weary ‘facts’ before us?”

Hilary Mantel London Review of Books Dec 1991 10min Permalink

Arts Religion

Some Girls Want Out

On spectacular saintliness, holy anorexia, and female hysteria.

Hilary Mantel London Review of Books Mar 2004 25min Permalink

Fiction

The Long Qt

The winner of the 2012 Man Booker Prize explores the disastrous, unexpected consequences of an unfaithful moment. Via John French.

"He knew Jody was rattling about the house. He knew—and he acknowledged this later—that she might at any moment blunder in. She did not like parties that involved open doors, and guests passing between the house and the garden. Strangers might come in, and wasps."

Hilary Mantel The Guardian Jan 2012 Permalink

Arts Science

What Is Going on in There?

On hypochondria.

Hilary Mantel London Review of Books Nov 2009 15min Permalink

World Travel

Last Morning in Al Hamra

On living in Saudi Arabia.

Hilary Mantel The Spectator Jan 1987 15min Permalink