“Every crease is a story.”

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Born 1949
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research. He was elected a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature in 1984 and appointed a Commander of the Order of the British Empire in 2003. - Wikipedia
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The Canterbury Tales
Geoffrey Chaucer, John E. Cunningham & others, 1737

Hawksmoor
Peter Ackroyd, 1975

Dickens
Peter Ackroyd, 1990

Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
Peter Ackroyd, 1994

T.S. Eliot
Peter Ackroyd, 1984

Shakespeare
Peter Ackroyd, 2005

The house of Doctor Dee
Peter Ackroyd, 1993

London - The Biography (London a Biography)
Peter Ackroyd, Wright & others, 2000

Tudors
Peter Ackroyd, 2013

Foundation
Peter Ackroyd, 2012

The last testament of Oscar Wilde
Peter Ackroyd, 1983

Dressing Up
Peter Ackroyd, 1979

Chatterton
Peter Ackroyd, 1987

Blake
Peter Ackroyd, 1995

London under
Peter Ackroyd, 2011

The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Peter Ackroyd, 2008

The Thames
Peter Ackroyd, 2007

Ancient Rome (Voyages Through Time)
Peter Ackroyd, 2006

Alfred Hitchcock
Peter Ackroyd, 2015

English music
Peter Ackroyd, 1988

Albion
Peter Ackroyd, 2002

The Fall of Troy
Peter Ackroyd & Michael Maloney, 2006

The Plato Papers
Peter Ackroyd, 1999

First light
Peter Ackroyd, 1989

Ezra Pound and his world
Peter Ackroyd, 1980

Poe
Peter Ackroyd, 2008

Cities of Blood
Peter Ackroyd, 2004

Charlie Chaplin
Peter Ackroyd, 2014

Introduction to Dickens
Peter Ackroyd, 1991

The trial of Elizabeth Cree
Peter Ackroyd, 1995

The Lambs of London
Peter Ackroyd, 2004

The Clerkenwell tales
Peter Ackroyd, 1999

Milton in America
Peter Ackroyd, 1996

Illustrated London
Peter Ackroyd, 2003

Kingdom of the Dead
Peter Ackroyd, 2004

Chaucer
Peter Ackroyd, 2004

The beginning
Peter Ackroyd, 2003

Dickens' London
Peter Ackroyd, 1987

Innovation
Peter Ackroyd, 2021

The English ghost
Peter Ackroyd, 2010

Mr Cadmus
Peter Ackroyd, 2020

Newton
Peter Ackroyd, 2006

Escape From Earth (Voyages Through Time)
Peter Ackroyd, 2003

Queer City
Peter Ackroyd, 2017

Three brothers
Peter Ackroyd, 2013

The great fire of London
Peter Ackroyd, 1982

Rebellion
Peter Ackroyd, 2014
Isaac Newton
Peter Ackroyd, 2006
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