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Poe : A Life Cut Short by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography / Memoir
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor of the "Literary Messenger" he was influential among critics and writers of the Ameri ...Show more
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Narratives/Memoir
*** A Sunday Times Bestseller *** In Roman Londinium the city was dotted with lupanaria ('wolf dens' or public pleasure houses), fornices (brothels) and thermiae (hot baths). Then came the Emperor Constantine, with his bishops, monks and missionaries. And so began an endless loop of alternating perm ...Show more
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: World History/Politics
Peter Ackroyd is our preeminent chronicler of London. In Queer City, he looks at the metropolis in a whole new way - through the history and experiences of its gay population. In Roman Londinium the penis was worshipped and homosexuality was considered admirable. The city was dotted with lupanaria ('wol ...Show more
Revolution: The History of England (Volume IV) by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: The History of England
The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, 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 ...Show more
Revolution - The History of England: Volume IV by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: The History of England
Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales r ...Show more
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Biography / Memoir
Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare. He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - meeting Shakespeare afresh on his own ground. Written with intuition and imagination ...Show more
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: Film/Television/Media
From a leading historian and writer, a delightful exploration of the great English tradition of treading the boards. The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft, from the medieval period to the present day. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative s ...Show more
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: World History/Politics
The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want to have fun. "The English Ghost" is a treasure trove of such sightings; comical and scary, like all the b ...Show more
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: New Non Fiction
From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries. This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed over the last fourteen hundred years. During this time, Christianity has been the predominant ...Show more
The History of England Volume II: Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: World History/Politics | Series: A History of England | Reading Level: good
This is the second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors. Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with ...Show more
Three Brothers by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: New Fiction
Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out 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, ...Show more
Three Brothers by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: General Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out 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, ...Show more