London Under

Ackroyd is a knowledgeable and evocative guide to London’s different archaeological levels * Times Higher Education Supplement *
As ever his research is meticulous, his scope expansive, his writing definitive. Every sentence is delivered with judicial gravity and command…Once again, Ackroyd shares his vision of a mythical city most do not see – Euan Ferguson * Time Out *
While many authors have shone a flashlight on London’s catacombs and tunnels, Ackroyd’s vision is infra-red…skilled at connecting the past, present and future…For those looking for a highly readable introduction, plumb and depth to get a copy * Londonist *
This book is not a straightforward history of London’s relationship with the clay on which it stands but a poetic invoking of what Ackroyd perceives as the diabolic terror of the earth – Claire Allfree * Metro *
Other worlds lurk below London, and Ackroyd revels in them. The book is both an absorbing history of those parts of the capital that lie beneath our feet and a meditation on the meaning we give them * Literary Review *
A literary, cultural and topographical sat-nav for going underground in London… With quick, deft stitches he sews the fantastical and the familiar into a macabre sampler of the city that exists beneath the feet of its citizens * The Times *
London Under is written with Ackroyd’s characteristic panache * Sunday Times *
[A] fascinating history of the capital beneath the surface… Irresistible – Dominic Sandbrook * Financial Times *
There is much here that will delight Ackroyd’s many admirers * Times Literary Supplement *
Ackroyd takes us through the layers of the city, lifting the covers to peer downwards * Camden New Journal *

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet, and broadcaster.

Selected Works:

• Non-Fiction:
  • London: The Biography
  • Thames: Sacred River
  • London Under
• Biographies:
  • Charles Dickens
  • William Blake
  • Charlie Chaplin
  • Alfred Hitchcock
• History:
  • A multi-volume history of England

Awards and Recognition:

• Whitbread Biography Award
• Royal Society of Literature’s William Heinemann Award
• James Tait Black Memorial Prize
• Guardian Fiction Prize
• Somerset Maugham Award
• South Bank Prize for Literature

Ackroyd holds a CBE for services to literature.

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