The Plato Papers

By Peter Ackroyd, Peter Ackroyd

A novel on the way time deforms reality and the futility of bucking the process. In the 37th century, as a result of an error somewhere over the centuries, academics teach The Origin of Species was...

Peter Ackroyd: The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures

By Peter R. Ackroyd, Peter Ackroyd, Edited And With An Introduction By Thomas Wright

During the 1970s and the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews and articles for the Spectator, on literature, film and a number of social and cultural issues. The collection offers...

Table Talk Oscar Wilde

By Thomas Wright, Peter Ackroyd, Oscar Wilde

"For the true melody and majesty of [Wilde's] voice...we may turn with confidence to these hitherto uncollected stories. Here lie the foundations of his unique genius"--from the foreword by Peter...

Dickens : Public Life And Private Passion

By Peter Ackroyd

Chaucer

By Peter Ackroyd

Profiles the eventful life of master fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, recounting his life as a courtier, diplomat, and literary luminary, who was also indicted for rape, sued for d...

Illustrated London

By Peter Ackroyd, Peter Ackroyd, PETER ACKROYD

London: The Biography, the triumphant culmination of Peter Ackroyd’s lifelong obsession with the history and topography of London -- now in this beautifully illustrated edition.So much of Peter A...

P.E.N.: New Fiction I

By Peter Ackroyd, PEN.

Introduction / Peter Ackroyd -- Ties / Desmond Hogan -- At The Beach / Robert Mullen -- Pleasure Trips / John Greening -- Mammy's Boy / Thomas Mccarthy -- Dark Steps / S.r. Wallace -- Proletarian Z...

Covent Garden

By Peter Ackroyd, Clive Boursnell

"In the late 1960s and early 1970s Clive Boursnell shot thousands of colour and black and white photographs of the Covent Garden fruit, vegetable and flower markets, documenting the end of an era b...

Voices From Dickens' London: First-Hand Accounts Of Life In The Great Metropolitan

By Peter Ackroyd, Michael Paterson, Mike Paterson, MICHAEL PATERSON

Drawing On Descriptions Of Life In The Capital From Letters, Diaries And Newspapers As Well As Dickens' Social Commentary This Book Describes A City Undergoing Massive Social Changes. It Includes A...

Blake

By Peter Ackroyd