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The Guardian - UK
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Ella Creamer

‘Provocative’ new book to showcase four decades of Hilary Mantel’s work

Hilary Mantel.
‘Prose that is endlessly dazzling’ … Hilary Mantel. Photograph: Richard Ansett

A collection of journalistic writing by Hilary Mantel is to be published next month, just over a year after the Wolf Hall author’s death.

The new book, A Memoir of My Former Self: A Life in Writing, will feature four decades of Mantel’s work across a broad range of subjects, from her health struggles as a young woman and her time living in Saudi Arabia to the themes that fed into novels, including revolutionary France and Tudor England.

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