Peter Ackroyd
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria’s Diamond Jubilee
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Does the world need another history of England? The fifth in Ackroyd’s series takes on a big challenge: England revels in the ...Read Review
Civil War: The History of England, Volume III
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In Civil War, the third instalment of his ambitious attempt to write a history of England akin to Macaulay, Peter Ackroyd covers the ...Read Review
Three Brothers
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Separated by exactly one year from each other in birth date, Harry, Daniel and Sam are no ordinary brothers. As different in personality ...Read Review
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I
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In this, the second book in his history of England, Peter Ackroyd takes on the ever-popular Tudor family, from Henry VIII forward. (Henry ...Read Review
Foundation: The History of England from its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors
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This volume is the first in an anticipated six-volume history Ackroyd is writing following England from its first inhabitants to the present day. ...Read Review
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time
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The prolific Peter Ackroyd’s latest book is a collection of supposedly factual reports of supernatural occurrences in England, from the Middle Ages ...Read Review
The Canterbury Tales
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Geoffrey Chaucer (c1343-1400) was an English author, poet, philosopher, bureaucrat, courtier and diplomat. Best known for The Canterbury Tales he spent his ...Read Review
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
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Peter Ackroyd’s fiction has a strong historical rooting, particularly in novels like Hawksmoor and Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem, which are ...Read Review
The Fall Of Troy
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In this small but perfectly formed novel, Peter Ackroyd returns to the themes of fakes and forgeries. Set during the excavation of Troy, ...Read Review
