Great Fire of London

by Peter Ackroyd

Published 28 January 1982

Chatterton

by Peter Ackroyd

Published 7 September 1987
What is the mystery of Thomas Chatterton? A young poet and elderly female novelist try to decode the clues found within an eighteenth-century manuscript, only to discover that their investigation is disclosing other secrets for which there is no solution. But they are not alone in their quest: the...Read more

Hawksmoor

by Peter Ackroyd

Published 23 September 1985

'There is no Light without Darknesse
and no Substance without Shaddowe'


So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of...

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First Light

by Peter Ackroyd

Published 17 April 1989
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 civil servant, and a stand-up comic converge on the site, disturbing the quiet seclusion of...Read more

Oscar Wilde never wrote a last testament during his isolation in Paris. This book takes the known facts about Oscar Wilde and converts them into a fictional portrait of the artist and memoir of a life of great contrast - a career which ended with a catastrophic fall from...Read more

T.S.Eliot

by Peter Ackroyd

Published 24 September 1984
'THIS BRILLIANT ACCOUNT OF ELIOT'S LIFE TURNS A WEALTH OF DETAILED RESEARCH INTO A FLUENT NARRATIVE THAT IS CONSISTENTLY ENGROSSING AND CONTAINS INSIGHTS INTO EVERY ASPECT OF THE MAN'S LITERARY OUTPUT' - IAN HISLOP, BOOKS & BOOKMEN 17/8/87--7000X107PX$5.95(10000X86P). B FORMAT.400PP+32PP INSET.TEXT ON TAMBELLE.