Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.
A masterful assessment of a period that saw change in every area of
life * History Revealed *
It is Ackroyd's depiction of an anxious society in the grip of
rapid change - industrialisation, fast urbanisation, the impact of
the railway and the electric telegraph - that is the most riveting
... fascinating * The Times *
Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman -- Ian Thomson *
Independent *
Ackroyd is a fascinating mix of a nineteenth-century narrative
historian and modern social analyst -- Gerard de Groot * The Times
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Ackroyd's trademark insight and wit, and the glorious
interconnectedness of all things, permeate each page * Observer
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Ackroyd writes with such lightly worn erudition and a deceptive
ease that he never fails to engage * Daily Telegraph *
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