Mantel Pieces

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 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.