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Paperback Books by Peter Ackroyd
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| Publication Date: November 2008 |
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| The Lambs of London |
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| by Peter Ackroyd |
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| Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the... Read More |
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| Publication Date: July 2007 |
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| Shakespeare: The Biography |
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| by Peter Ackroyd |
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| Drawing on an exceptional combination of skills as literary biographer, novelist, and chronicler of London history, Peter Ackroyd surely re-creates the world that shaped Shakespeare--and brings the playwright himself into unusually vivid... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2006 |
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| The Clerkenwell Tales |
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| by Peter Ackroyd |
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| In 1399 London, with Richard II on the throne of England, Sister Clarice, a member of the convent at Clerkenwell, experiences a series of visions about a dark and dangerous future that reveals a secret plot to overthrow the Church, dethrone... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 2005 |
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| The Plato Papers |
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| by Peter Ackroyd |
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| In a now peaceful thirty-eighth-century London, the city's greatest orator, Plato, reflects on the broad sweep of human history, in an inventive novel by the author of The Life of Thomas More and Hawksmoor. Reprint. 17,500 first printing. |
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| Publication Date: March 2001 |
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| The Life of Thomas More |
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| by Peter Ackroyd |
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| Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and imagination of one of the most remarkable figures of history. Thomas More (1478-1535) was a renowned statesman; the author of a political fantasy... Read More |
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| Publication Date: November 1999 |
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| Chatterton |
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| by Peter Ackroyd |
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| Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential 'medieval' poems he claimed to have discovered. An authentic talent... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1996 |
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| First Light |
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| by Peter Ackroyd |
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| First Light begins with an ominous coincidence: the reappearance of the ancient night sky during the excavation of an astronomically aligned Neolithic grave in Dorset. A group of eccentrics — archaeologists, astronomers, local rustics, a... Read More |
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| Publication Date: September 1996 |
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