A Memoir of My Former Self by Hilary Mantel -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

Index

Cover Title Page Copyright Notice Editor’s Note Part I: Once Upon a Life

On the One Hand I Once Stole a Book Exam Fever Where Do Stories Come From? Persons from Porlock Which Bits of English History Are My History? Blot, Erase, Delete Last Morning in Al Hamra Night Visions The Palace Revolutionary Meeting My Stepfather Wicked Parents in Fairy Tales A Memoir of My Former Self Dreaming of Pork and Porn A Doctor’s Diaries Holy Disorders Written on Our Bodies Every Part of My Body Hurts Once Upon a Life The Princess Myth On Grief

Part II: Writing in the Dark

Outrage Merchant: Prick Up Your Ears Mad, Bad and Dangerous: Fatal Attraction Good Clean Violence: RoboCop Sixties Survivors: Withnail and I Not by Bread Alone: Babette’s Feast and Barfly Fallen Angels: Wings of Desire When Sex Began: Scandal Bittersweet Treat: When Harry Met Sally Unsentimental Education: A Short Film About Love Natural Disaster: Sweetie Taking the Mickey: Wild Orchid Happily Ever After: Romauld et Juliette Don’t Take the Vicar: Wild at Heart In the Company of Savages: Goodfellas Polite Young Things: Metropolitan

Part III: Turn the Page

Not “Everybody’s Dear Jane”: On Jane Austen Killer Children: On Gitta Sereny Figures in a Landsape: On Annie Proulx Conservative Rebel: On Rebecca West A Past Recaptured: On Sybille Bedford Getting Through: On John McGahern The Right to Life: On Capital Punishment Fashion Queen: On Marie Antoinette Religion and the Decline of Magic: On Keith Thomas A Book of the World: On V. S. Naipaul

Part IV: The Reith Lectures

The Day Is for Leaving The Iron Maiden Silence Grips the Town Can These Bones Live? Adaptation

Part V: The Moon Was a Tender Crescent

Bryant Park: A Memoir Real Books in Imaginary Houses A Life of Biggles Nostalgic for Disorder No Passport Required “How I Became a Writer” Stories Female Role Novels Women over Fifty: The Invisible Generation Elizabeth Jane Howard If the Glance of a Woman Can Sour Cream At First Sniff The Joys of Stationery The Books I Will Never Write On the Right Track The Other King Anne Boleyn: Witch, Bitch, Temptress, Feminist How I Came to Write Wolf Hall Unfreezing Antique Feeling A Letter to Thomas More, Knight Royal Bodies Touching Hands with the Lost

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