Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake, Wilkie Collins and Thomas More and of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
Books by Peter Ackroyd
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London: The Concise Biography
by Peter AckroydPublished: 02/07/2012
An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd’s magisterial biography of the city of London
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London Under
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/06/2012
From the author of the bestselling London: The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London
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Wilkie Collins
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/05/2012
Ackroyd at his best -- a gripping short life of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The Woman in White.
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Dickens: Abridged
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/03/2012
The abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's classic biography of Dickens, reissued with a stunning new cover look to celebrate Dickens' bicentenary
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The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/12/2011
An enormously enjoyable spooky collection of ghost-sightings over the centuries, full of the spirit of place, in true Ackroyd style.
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Venice
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/09/2010
Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial – a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice: ultimate city.
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The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/07/2009
Another dazzling example of the power of Peter Ackroyd's imagination - a brilliant novel written in the voice of Victor Frankenstein himself. Shelley and Mary Shelley are characters in the story.
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Poe: A Life Cut Short
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/04/2009
Edgar Allan Poe's life (1809-1849) was Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, original, dark, dazzling, satirical, inventive - in short, an ideal subject for Peter Ackroyd. Concise, dramatic and immensely readable, this is an essential and idiosyncratic addition to Ackroyd's canon of brilliant biographies.
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Thames: Sacred River
by Peter AckroydPublished: 03/11/2008
Thames: Sacred River displays the same qualities as London: the biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character. This hugely enjoyable book is packed with fascinating facts and insights: it will be another mammoth bestseller.
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The Fall Of Troy
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/10/2007
A brilliant historical novel, set during the 19th century at the time that the Bronze Age site of Troy was being excavated, with Peter Ackroyd returning to one of his favourite themes: fakes, forgeries and plagiarism.
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The Thames: Sacred River Part 1: The Mirror of History
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2007
The Thames displays the same qualities as London: The Biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character. This hugely enjoyable book is packed with fascinating facts and insights: it will be another mammoth bestseller.
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The Thames: Sacred River Part 2: The Working River
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2007
Thames: Sacred River displays the same qualities as London: The Biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character. This hugely enjoyable book is packed with fascinating facts and insights: it will be another mammoth bestseller.
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The Thames: Sacred River Part 3: Shadows and Depths
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2007
The Thames displays the same qualities as London: The Biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character. This hugely enjoyable book is packed with fascinating facts and insights: it will be another mammoth bestseller.
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Brief Lives 3 - Newton
by Peter AckroydPublished: 02/07/2007
The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER
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Shakespeare: The Biography
by Peter AckroydPublished: 02/10/2006
A 'living attempt to reach into the world and heart of Shakespeare'. Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, a book by a writer about a writer.
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Turner: Brief Lives 2
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/06/2006
The 2nd in Ackroyd's series of BRIEF LIVES distils his knowledge and inspiration in a dazzling short life of perhaps the greatest and most original of all English painters, J.M.W. Turner.
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The Lambs Of London
by Peter AckroydPublished: 03/10/2005
A tour de force in the tradition of Peter Ackroyd's HAWKSMOOR AND CHATTERTON, a gripping novel of betrayal and deceit set in the teeming streets of 19th-century London.
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Shakespeare - The Biography: Vol I: Aspiring Spirit
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2005
A magnificent achievement, SHAKESPEARE will command popular success, scholarly acclaim and vast sales - truly comparable to LONDON.
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Shakespeare - The Biography: Vol II: The Upstart Crow
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2005
A magnificent achievement, SHAKESPEARE will command popular success, scholarly acclaim and vast sales - truly comparable to LONDON.
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Shakespeare - The Biography: Vol III: A Muse of Fire
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2005
A magnificent achievement, SHAKESPEARE will command popular success, scholarly acclaim and vast sales - truly comparable to LONDON.
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Shakespeare - The Biography: Vol IV: The Onlie Begetter
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2005
A magnificent achievement, SHAKESPEARE will command popular success, scholarly acclaim and vast sales - truly comparable to LONDON.
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Chaucer: Brief Lives
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/06/2005
'Ackroyd reinvented the biography genre, pushing at the boundaries - he pulls of the feat of climbing inside Chaucer's soul by immersing himself in the history and literature of the period' Scotland on Sunday
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Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/10/2004
Peter Ackroyd follows LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY with a book which is equally original and even more magnificent in scope.
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Clerkenwell Tales
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/06/2004
Brilliant historical novel set in London in the late 14th century.
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Illustrated London
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/12/2003
A magnificent pictorial history of London, to tie in with Peter Ackroyd's TV series (BBC) based on his bestselling LONDON: A BIOGRAPGHY.
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London - Districts and Suburbs
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2003
LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original.
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London - Foundations
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2003
LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original.
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London - Street Life and the People
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2003
LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original.
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London - Trade and Enterprise
by Peter AckroydPublished: 15/09/2003
LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original.
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The Collection
by Peter AckroydPublished: 02/09/2002
An anthology of Peter Ackroyd's journalism, lectures, short stories and miscellaneous writing.
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London: The Biography
by Peter AckroydPublished: 02/11/2001
A masterpiece: London: A Biography is the culmination and distillation of Peter Ackroyd's lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London. Vividly anecdotal and brilliantly original.
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Blake
by Peter AckroydPublished: 01/11/1996
'A marvellous work of the imagination...enthralling' Ruth Rendell
