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
(2008) Author, author: The books I will never write | Hilary Mantel | The Guardian
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’
(2020) Hilary Mantel: The Queen of Historical Fiction
(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
(2012) She-wolf: Hilar Mantel interviewed by Lynn Barber - paywall
(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
(2022) Hilary Mantel was one of the great voices of historical fiction – and so much more
(2021) Reading and Rereading Hilary Mantel | The Huntington
(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
(1998) Criticism: Hilary Mantel: The Novelist in Action - Jean Richardson - paywall
(1994) Hilary Mantel Criticism: Two Doors: Which One Will You Open? - Kate Kellaway - paywall
Reviews
(2024) Triumphs of Skepticism | Clair Wills | The New York Review of Books - paywall. Reviewing ‘A Memoir of My Former Self’.
(2023) A Memoir of My Former Self: Hilary Mantel’s final book is a reminder of the many stories she still had to tell
(2023) Conversing with the ‘restless dead’ – a posthumous collection of Hilary Mantel’s writing illuminates her singular literary achievement
Comment
(2010) Mantel’s Baby Blues | The New Yorker - paywall