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The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.61A gripping retelling of the timeless epic of romance, enchantment and adventure, Peter Ackroyd's The Death of King Arthur recasts Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur in clear, compelling modern... -
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148459
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.50The English Soul portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity as it has developed over the last 1,400 years. As the predominant faith of the people, Christianity has been the reflection,... -
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation Peter Ackroyd 9781836390947
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.01Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781836390947Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 384Imprint Reaktion BooksPublisher... -
Venice, A Travellers Companion: A Traveller's Reader John Julius Norwich 9781472140302
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.88Henry James wrote of Venice: 'You desire to embrace it, to caress it, to possess it ...' whereas Mark Twain found St Mark's 'so ugly ...propped on its long row of thick-legged columns, its back... -
Albion: A History of the British Imagination by Peter Ackroyd 9780385497732
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £17.51Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497732Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 576Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148398
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £10.05The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting - deriving from the Church... -
The Concept of Time in Peter Ackroyd's 'Hawksmoor' by Anke Grundmann 9783638705745
RRP: £37.90Booksplease Price: £29.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783638705745Author Anke GrundmannFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher Grin... -
Civil War: The History of England Volume III by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38In Civil War, Peter Ackroyd continues his dazzling account of England's history, beginning with the progress south of the Scottish king, James VI, who on the death of Elizabeth I became the first... -
Peter Ackroyd and Metafiction. A Brief Introduction by Marta Zapala-Kraj 9783656886006
RRP: £22.50Booksplease Price: £17.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783656886006Author Marta Zapala-KrajFormat PaperbackPage Count 20Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher... -
Forgotten London: Exploring the Hidden Life of the City Peter Ackroyd 9780711287648
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18No city shaped the modern world quite like London - a powerhouse of trade, finance and empire, the centre of global influence in the nineteenth century. But beyond the familiar stories of power and... -
London Under: The Secret History Beneath the Streets by Peter Ackroyd 9780307473783
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.44Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Queer City: Gay London from the Romans to the Present Day by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46'Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts' Simon Callow, GuardianIn this powerful Sunday Times bestseller Peter Ackroyd looks at London in a whole new way - through the history... -
A Horror and a Beauty: The World of Peter Ackroyd's London Novels Petr Chalupsky 9788024631615
Booksplease Price: £15.82Peter Ackroyd's writing is obsessed with the defining heterogeneity of London its rich diversity of human experience, mood, and emotion, of actions and events, and of the tools through which all of... -
Tudors: The History of England from Henry VIII to Elizabeth I by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £15.74Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250054609Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher... -
Revolution: The History of England from the Battle of the Boyne to the Battle of Waterloo by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £14.30Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250765970Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 416Imprint Thomas Dunne Book for St... -
Rebellion: The History of England from James I to the Glorious Revolution by Peter Ackroyd 9781250070241
RRP: £24.00Booksplease Price: £15.53Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250070241Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 528Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher... -
Foundation: The History of England from Its Earliest Beginnings to the Tudors by Peter Ackroyd 9781250037558
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £14.15Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250037558Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 496Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher... -
Welcome to the Chemical Theatre: The Urban Chronotope in Peter Ackroyd's Fiction by Marta Komsta 9783631626184
RRP: £49.05Booksplease Price: £44.25The book discusses the evolution of the urban chronotope in the selected novels by Peter Ackroyd, an acclaimed British author. The examined narratives illustrate the transformation from the... -
Exile and Restoration: A Study of Hebrew Thought of the Sixth Century BC by Peter Ackroyd 9780334052227
Booksplease Price: £24.14'A masterly survey of the period running from the eve of the exile to the end of the sixth century BC. It is a period that abounds in problems, and the author shows a fine acquaintance with a vast... -
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition) by Peter Ackroyd 9780143106951
RRP: £19.00Booksplease Price: £14.00Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780143106951Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 336Imprint Penguin ClassicsPublisher... -
Dominion: The History of England from the Battle of Waterloo to Victoria's Diamond Jubilee by Peter Ackroyd 9781250812162
RRP: £21.00Booksplease Price: £13.62Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781250812162Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 400Imprint St. Martin's GriffinPublisher... -
The Literary Psychogeography of London: Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair by Ann Tso 9783030529796
Booksplease Price: £56.12This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair's respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these... -
Joan of Arc by Helen Castor
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23The story of one of the most remarkable women of the medieval world, as you have never read it beforeA French peasant girl who heard voices from God, Joan convinced the royal court of her divine... -
Super-Infinite: The Transformations of John Donne - Winner of the Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction 2022 by Katherine Rundell
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23**A Sunday Times top ten bestseller****Shortlisted for the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award 2023****Shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize for Non-Fiction 2023****Shortlisted for the... -
The Literary Psychogeography of London: Otherworlds of Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair by Ann Tso 9783030529826
Booksplease Price: £56.12This Pivot book examines literary elements of urban topography that have animated Alan Moore, Peter Ackroyd, and Iain Sinclair's respective representations of London-ness. Ann Tso argues these... -
Biofictions - The Rewriting of Romantic Lives in Contemporary Fiction and Drama by Prof. Martin Middeke
Booksplease Price: £96.11A pioneering collection of articles on fictionalized biographies of the Romantics in contemporary fiction and drama. It appears that the lives of the British Romantics and the myths surrounding... -
Layer cake - the representation of London in Penelope Lively's City of the Mind and Peter Ackroyd's London: The Biography by Ana Colton-Sonnenberg 9783638849258
RRP: £37.90Booksplease Price: £29.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9783638849258Author Ana Colton-SonnenbergFormat PaperbackPage Count 56Imprint Grin PublishingPublisher... -
From Source to Sea: Notes from a 215-Mile Walk Along the River Thames Tom Chesshyre 9781786852861
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02Over the years, authors, artists and amblers aplenty have felt the pull of the Thames, and now travel writer Tom Chesshyre is following in their footsteps.He's walking the length of the river from... -
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens Helena Kelly 9781837731299
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.59Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John... -
The Life and Lies of Charles Dickens by Helena Kelly 9781837731046
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £19.23Think you already know the story of Charles Dickens' life? Think again.Almost everything you're familiar with was first mentioned in an authorised biography written by Dickens' close friend John... -
Will In The World: How Shakespeare Became Shakespeare by Stephen Greenblatt
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05Stephen Greenblatt's Will in the World is widely recognised to be the fullest and most brilliant account ever written of Shakespeare's life, his work and his age.Shakespeare was a man of his time,... -
In Search Of Shakespeare by Michael Wood
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Almost 400 years after his death, William Shakespeare is still acclaimed as the world's greatest writer, and yet the man himself remains shrouded in mystery. In this absorbing historical detective... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain Jason Okundaye 9780571372225
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.23A TLS AND GQ BOOK OF THE YEARFINALIST FOR THE ORWELL PRIZESAnnouncing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'A... -
Revolutionary Acts: Love & Brotherhood in Black Gay Britain by Jason Okundaye 9780571372218
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.38Announcing the arrival of a major new talent, an astonishing work of social history which captures Black gay Britain as never before.'In this seminal book Okundaye gives us juicy dialogue, tears and... -
London Made Us: A Memoir of a Shape-Shifting City by Robert Elms
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95'London is a giant kaleidoscope, which is forever turning. Take your eye off it for more than a moment and you're lost.' Robert Elms has seen his beloved city change beyond all imagining. London in... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis 9781786079954
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £11.30'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
Inheritance: The Lost History of Mary Davies: A Story of Property, Marriage and Madness by Leo Hollis
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.74'Brilliant' Financial Times 'Hollis expertly weaves together the human tragedy and high politics behind the explosion of one of the world's greatest cities' Dan Snow The reclaimed history of a... -
Vagabonds: Life on the Streets of Nineteenth-century London - by BBC New Generation Thinker 2022 by Oskar Jensen
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.99Dickensian London is brought to real and vivid life in this Wolfson History Prize-shortlisted portrait by a rising-star historian and New Generation Thinker Until now, our view of bustling late... -
The Zealot's Bones D.M. Mark 9781444798210
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.78Two men seeking the bones of a martyr stumble upon the crimes of a devil in the stunning historical crime novel by bestselling author David Mark.Hull, 1849: a city in the grip of a cholera outbreak... -
The Mercenary River: Private Greed, Public Good: A History of London's Water Nick Higham 9781472283863
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.26Anyone interested in the real London needs to read this. - Andrew MarrNo city can survive without water, and lots of it. Today we take the stuff for granted: turn a tap and it gushes out. But it...