PETER ACKROYD

Features the stories ranging from Beowulf to King Arthur and the Knights of the Round Table, via Chaucer and Shakespeare, to the Bronte sisters, 'Alice through the Looking Glass' and 'Lord of the Rings'. This work takes the reader from medieval mystery plays to music hall and pantomime; painting; and music, with Purcell and Vaughan Williams.

Peter Ackroyd, whose work has always been underpinned by a profound interest in and...

Gothic, mysterious, theatrical, fatally flawed, and dazzling, the life of Edgar Allan Poe, one...

"London Under" is a wonderful, atmospheric, imagina-tive, oozing short study of everything that...

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Peter Ackroyd's The Life of Thomas More is a masterful reconstruction of the life and...