Hilary Mantel General Resources

In Her Own Words

Lectures

(2017) BBC Radio 4 - The Reith Lectures, Hilary Mantel - Available now

Articles

Mantel wrote articles and reviews for the London Review of Books from the 1980s onwards. There are 59 articles and stories, found here.

She also wrote articles and reviews for the New York Review of Books, found here.

(2016) My writing day: Hilary Mantel
(2013) Hilary Mantel · Royal Bodies - paywall
(2017) Hilary Mantel · How do we know her? The Secrets of Margaret Pole - paywall
(2016) Hilary Mantel warns writers they must stand by what they say - the Guardian
(2008) Author, author: Every writer has a 'How I became a writer' story 

Interviews

(2021) Word of Mouth - Hilary Mantel in conversation with Michael Rosen - BBC Sounds
(2020) Hilary Mantel, Lee Child and Andrew Grant, Editors Pick - on her essay collection
(2020) Hilary Mantel: ‘I think of writing as the arena of peril’ 
(2015) Paris Review - Hilary Mantel, The Art of Fiction No. 226 - paywall
(2015) Interview with Hilary Mantel – Debbie Taylor
(2012/2022) An Interview with Hilary Mantel | A Writer of History
(2009/2023) Interview | In Conversation: Jane Haynes and Hilary Mantel - The London Magazine
(1998) An Interview with HILARY MANTEL | Atlantis - requires JSTOR login to read. A free personal account allows access to 100 articles.

About her health

(2013) Hilary Mantel · Diary: Meeting the Devil 
(2009) Hilary Mantel · What is going on in there? Hypochondria 
(2003) The ghost writer | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian

Words by Others

Overviews

(2020) My favourite Mantel: by Margaret Atwood, Colm Tóibín, Anne Enright and more | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian
(2015) The strange and brilliant fiction of Hilary Mantel

Reviews

(2024) Triumphs of Skepticism | Clair Wills | The New York Review of Books - paywall. Reviewing ‘A Memoir of My Former Self’.

Comment

(2010) Mantel’s Baby Blues | The New Yorker - paywall