Peter Ackroyd
Author
Pub. Date
2014
Language
English
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Rapier-sharp, witty, intriguing, and mysterious: a new novel from Peter Ackroyd set in the London of the 1960s.
Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world—a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords,...
Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world—a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords,...
Author
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
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Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others. In this gripping short biography, Peter Ackroyd wrests the director’s chair back from the master of control to reveal a lugubriously jolly man fond of practical jokes, who smashed a once-used tea cup every morning to remind himself of the frailty of life. Iconic film stars make cameo appearances...
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Language
English
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Description
Sophia Chrysanthis is only sixteen when the German archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is helping to excavate the amphorae and bronze vessels at the battle site of Troy without damaging them. Obermann is very good at the art of archaeology—perhaps too good at it. The atmosphere at Troy is tense and mysterious. Sophia finds herself increasingly baffled by the...
Author
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
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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 a doubt, Peter Ackroyd's breakout book. It has all the erudition and literary brilliance we expect of Ackroyd, yet it is
Author
Language
English
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"Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would plan great voyages, using railway timetables to plot an exact imaginary route across Europe. So how did this fearful figure become the one of the most respected film directors of the twentieth century? As an adult, Hitch rigorously controlled the press's...
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Language
English
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Charles Dickens's final, unfinished novel, and one that has puzzled readers and inspired writers since its publication, The Mystery of Edwin Drood is edited with an introduction by David Paroissien in Penguin Classics. Edwin Drood is contracted to marry orphan Rosa Bud when he comes of age, but when they find that duty has gradually replaced affection, they agree to break off the engagement. Shortly afterwards, in the middle of a storm on Christmas...
Author
Series
History of England volume 2
Pub. Date
2013.
Physical Desc
x, 507 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color), color map ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
Ackroyd brings the age of the Tudors to vivid life, charting the course of English history from Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome to the epic rule of Elizabeth I.
Author
Series
History of England volume 3
Pub. Date
2014.
Physical Desc
ix, 502 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
12) The beginning
Author
Pub. Date
[2003]
Physical Desc
143 pages : color illustrations ; 27 cm
Language
English
14) Innovation
Author
Series
History of England volume 6
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
x, 500 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"Innovation, the sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd's magnificent History of England series, takes readers from the Boer War to the Millennium Dome almost a hundred years later. Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne...
Author
Series
History of England volume 4
Pub. Date
[2017]
Physical Desc
ix, 403 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm.
Language
English
Description
"In Revolution, Peter Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was--again--at war with France, a war that would end with the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo. Late Stuart and Georgian England marked the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as...
Author
Series
History of England volume 5
Pub. Date
2018.
Physical Desc
x, 387 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (chiefly color) ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Dominion, the fifth volume of Peter Ackroyd's ... History of England, begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to a post-war depression and ends with the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901."--
17) Wilkie Collins
Author
Series
Pub. Date
[2015]
Physical Desc
viii, 252 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 19 cm.
Language
English
Description
Presents a short biography of the author of "The Moonstone" and "The Woman in White," two early masterpieces of mystery and detection.
Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely nearsighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colorful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was nonetheless a charmer, befriended by the great, loved by children, irresistibly attractive to women--and avidly read by generations...
18) Ancient Greece
Author
Pub. Date
2005.
Physical Desc
144 pages : color illustrations, color maps ; 27 cm
Language
English
Description
Traces the history of ancient Greece and how its civilization continues to influence Western culture.
Author
Pub. Date
[2007]
Physical Desc
[xxiii], 481 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
In Thames: the Biography, Ackroyd writes about connections between the Thames and such historical figures as Julius Caesar and Henry VIII, and offers memorable portraits of the ordinary men and women who depend on the river for their livelihoods. He visits all the towns and villages along the river, from Oxfordshire to London, and describes the magnificent royal residences, as well as the bridges and docks, locks and weirs, found along its 215-mile...