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Or would you rather commit acts of treachery, inflict heart-wrenching betrayals, and become a master of grand political intrigue? \u003cbr\u003e \u003cbr\u003e Your legend is yet to be written, but one thing is certain: glorious conquest awaits. \u003cstrong class=\"hmb\"\u003e \u003c\/strong\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv itemprop=\"description\" id=\"scope_book_description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHer subjects range far and wide: Robespierre and Danton, the Hite report, Saudi Arabia where she lived for four years in the 1980s, the Bulger case, John Osborne, the Virgin Mary as well as the pop icon Madonna, a brilliant examination of Helen Duncan, Britain’s last witch. There are essays about Jane Boleyn, Charles Brandon, Christopher Marlowe and Margaret Pole, which display the astonishing insight into the Tudor mind we are familiar with from the bestselling Wolf Hall Trilogy. Her famous lecture, ‘Royal Bodies’, which caused a media frenzy, explores the place of royal women in society and our imagination. Here too are some of her LRB diaries, including her first meeting with her stepfather and a confrontation with a circus strongman.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eConstantly illuminating, always penetrating and often very funny, interleaved with letters and other ephemera gathered from the archive, Mantel Pieces is an irresistible selection from one of our greatest living writers.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can read \u003cem\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/em\u003e as a romantic comedy, or you can read it as a feminist text.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYou can read it as a book about infidelity, about the pleasures and difficulties of intimacy, or about how our minds think about our bodies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHowever you choose to read it, it is an unforgettable novel about the possibility of love.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eDescribed by the \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e as a ‘new kind of adultery novel’, \u003cem\u003eConversations with Friends\u003c\/em\u003e is also sharp, bitingly funny fiction that digs deep into identity and communication; slicing into the divide between who we are, and who we present ourselves to be. 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