Die großartig erzählte Biografie eines einmaligen SehnsuchtsortsAlles an Venedig ist einmalig: di...

Eine großartige Geschichte der Weltstadt London»London ist so groß und wild, dass es alles in sic...

Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the wor...

'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'So proclaims Nicholas Dyer...

Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a c...

The sixth and final volume in Peter Ackroyd¿s magnificent History of England series, taking us fr...

An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London.Prize-winning ...

'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this po...

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christiani...

London - das ist nicht nur eine Weltmetropole. Vielmehr gleicht diese ganz besondere Stadt einem ...

Step into the shadows of London’s past with Peter Ackroyd as he uncovers the untold stories and f...

From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christiani...

Studies dealing with problems of meaning and interpretation of Old Testament words and ideas.

Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected child...

From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of T...

A New York Times Notable Book andProvidence Journal Best Book of the Year

With his characteristic enthusiasm and erudition, Peter Ackroyd follows his acclaimed London: A B...

Exile and Restoration

Sophia Chrysanthis is initially dazzled when the celebrated German archaeologist, Herr Obermann, ...

Volume 1 of The Cambridge History of the Bible concerns the earliest period down to Jerome.

In this vividly descriptive short study, Peter Ackroyd tunnels down through the geological layers...

Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has al...

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council e...

The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's 'Brief Lives'. 'Written in splendidly elas...

Heralded as a genius, the forerunner of modern fantasy and credited with the invention of the psy...

These important papers by a distinguished British Old Testament theologian, many of them previous...

This study of sixth-century Hebrew thought, a part of the Old Testament Library series, grew out ...

Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.H...

From Neolithic times to the dawn of the Tudor age, Peter Ackroyd's enthralling journey through En...

As a dense yellow fog swirls through the streets of London, a deep melancholy has descended on Sh...

Step into the tumultuous age of Stuart England with Peter Ackroyd's enlightening Civil War. Begin...

In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place...

Praise for The History of England series

A sweeping and enthralling journey through the birth of modern Britain, from the Glorious Revolut...

London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London,...

Following on from Foundation, Tudors is the second volume in Peter Ackroyd's astonishing series, ...

The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England seriesDominion takes us fr...

The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it?Peter Ackroyd's new biography tu...

Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English villag...

'Ackroyd, as always, is well worth the read.' -Kirkus, starred reviewDominion, the fifth volume o...

The fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England, beginning in 1688 with a rev...

Pariste, köhne bir otel odasinda hayatinin muhasebesini yapan geckin bir adam; ününü, servetini, ...

The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, storie...

With his magisterial and ingenious re-creations of the lives of Chaucer, Dickens, T. S. Eliot, Wi...

Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial-a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-fil...

Drawing upon extracts from contemporary letters, diaries and memoirs of fascinating inhabitants a...

Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is ...

A gripping short biography of the extraordinary Wilkie Collins, author of The Moonstone and The W...