Peter Ackroyd
Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
This volume is the first in an anticipated six-volume history Ackroyd is writing following England from its first inhabitants to…
The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Best known for The Canterbury Tales he…
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd’s fiction has a strong historical rooting, particularly in novels like Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem,…
The Fall Of Troy
In this small but perfectly formed novel, Peter Ackroyd returns to the themes of fakes and forgeries. Set during the…
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