London

Peter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London * Independent *Peter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London…a brilliant book * Sunday Telegraph *It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd’s ‘biography’ of our captial is the book about London – A N Wilson * Daily Mail *You will not find a better, more visionary book about a place we take for granted * Observer *[London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city. – Fiona Hamilton * The Times *In this outstanding biography of the capital Peter Ackroyd brings the streets alive with tales young and old. – Charlotte Vowden * Daily Express *The definitive history of London… a must read for anyone interested in the subject. – Gary Kemp * Daily Express *It’s this decade’s finest work of non-fiction. – Jude Rogers * The Word *A fantastically detailed book – David Troughton * Daily Express *

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London- The Biography, Thames- Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. 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.

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