Peter Ackroyd: 40 books
The Limehouse Golem
A Novel
Language: English
Release Date: March 14, 2012
Now a major motion picture
A literary star returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of his generation who will be read in a hundred years' time." -- The Sunday Times (London)
Without...
J.M.W. Turner
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In this second volume in the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brings us a man of humble beginnings, crude manners, and prodigious talents, the nineteenth-century painter J. M. W. Turner.
Joseph Mallord William Turner was born in London in 1775. His father was...
Poe
A Life Cut Short
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2009
Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one of America’s greatest and most versatile writers, is the ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Poe wrote lyrical poetry and macabre psychological melodramas; invented the first fictional detective; and produced...
The Death of King Arthur
The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)
Language: English
Release Date: November 10, 2011
Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation.
The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any from the world of myth. Although many versions...
Newton
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: April 15, 2008
When Newton was not yet twenty-five years old, he formulated calculus, hit upon the idea of gravity, and discovered that white light was made up of all the colors of the spectrum. By 1678, Newton designed a telescope to study the movement of the planets and published Principia, a milestone in the...
Queer City
Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day
Language: English
Release Date: May 8, 2018
PRAISE FOR QUEER CITY
“Always entertaining . . . much to be recommended.”—The Spectator
“A nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis.”—Independent
“Ackroyd has an encyclopedic knowledge of London, and a poet’s instinct for its strange, mesmerizing drives and...
Revolution
The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo
Language: English
Release Date: October 10, 2017
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a revolution and ending in 1815 with a famous victory.
In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant...
Chaucer
Ackroyd's Brief Lives
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
In the first in a new series of brief biographies, bestselling author Peter Ackroyd brilliantly evokes the medieval world of England and provides an incomparable introduction to the great poet’s works.
Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, lived a surprisingly eventful life. He served with...
by Peter Ackroyd
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: April 25, 2012
When Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's undisputed literary masters, writes a new novel, it is a literary event. With his last novel, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, "as gripping and ingenious a murder mystery as you could hope to come across," in the words of the San Francisco Chronicle, he reached...
by Peter Ackroyd
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Language: Italian
Release Date: February 28, 2014
Londra non è una città. I suoi vicoli sono vene, i suoi parchi polmoni. Nella nebbia, le strade di ciottoli brillano di sudore, mentre le bocche degli idranti gettano acqua come sangue da un’arteria. Le sue vecchie mura sembrano spalle enormi. I ponti che traversano il Tamigi gambe tozze e arcuate,...
Shakespeare
The Biography
Language: English
Release Date: April 21, 2010
A TIMES LITERARY SUPPLEMENT BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR
Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid focus....
Albion
The Origins of the English Imagination
Language: English
Release Date: December 18, 2007
With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A Biography with an inspired look into the heart and the history of the English imagination. To tell the story of its evolution, Ackroyd ranges across literature and painting, philosophy and science, architecture...
London Under
The Secret History Beneath the Streets
Language: English
Release Date: November 1, 2011
In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers of London, meeting the creatures that dwell in darkness and excavating the lore and mythology beneath the surface.
There is a Bronze Age trackway below the Isle of Dogs, Anglo-Saxon graves rest...
Civil War
The History of England Volume III
Language: English
Release Date: September 25, 2014
In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first Stuart king of England, and ends with the deposition and flight into exile of his grandson, James II....