Inside story This posthumous collection of writing is a revealing insight into the mind of one of the great English novelists

The title of this book, published a year after Hilary Mantel’s death, makes it out to be a sort of autobiography. In fact it’s an odds-and-sods collection of Mantel’s journalism from 1987 to 2017, mostly shorter and less formal than the essays in Mantel Pieces.

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