London: The Concise Biography

Name: London: The Concise Biography
Brand: Vintage Publishing
SKU: 9780099570387
Price: 23.85 EUR
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By (author): Peter Ackroyd

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

Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads. His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself.

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Weight: 562g
Dimensions: 129 x 198mm
Publication Date: 12 Apr 2012
Publisher: Vintage Publishing
Publication City/Country: United Kingdom
Language: English
ISBN13: 9780099570387

About Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian biographer novelist poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens William Blake Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award the James Tait Black Memorial Prize the Guardian Fiction Prize the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.