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Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $16.70'There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe'So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to... -
Venice by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $29.55In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty. He leads us... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $31.48Booksplease Price: $25.07Alfred Hitchcock was a strange child. Fat, lonely, burning with fear and ambition, his childhood was an isolated one, scented with fish from his father's shop. Afraid to leave his bedroom, he would... -
Auden Peter Ackroyd 9781836391722
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $37.93Featured in New Statesman's Culture Preview 2026: The best non-fiction to read this year Of all the English poets born in the twentieth century, Wystan Hugh Auden is by far the most significant... -
Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.64Short and oddly built, with a head too big for his body, extremely short-sighted, unable to stay still, dressed in colourful clothes, Wilkie Collins looked distinctly strange. But he was none the... -
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $19.87London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and... -
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $18.88Booksplease Price: $15.35Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and... -
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $21.06He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work... -
The Lambs Of London by Peter Ackroyd 9780099472094
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $26.19Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It... -
The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd 9781400075959
Booksplease Price: $30.68Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075959Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 224Imprint -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $38.58Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the... -
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd 9781786898944
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $19.13Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and... -
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $47.75Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws... -
First Light by Peter Ackroyd 9780802134813
Booksplease Price: $31.19An immensely engaging and entertaining novel - a suspenseful reflection on life, nature, and the cosmos, and above all an illuminating and enchanting story.A major best-seller in Britain, First Light... -
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $31.61An 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... -
Clerkenwell Tales Peter Ackroyd 9780749386306
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $27.62The scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century, and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange signs and portents are troubling the latter... -
Dickens: Abridged by Peter Ackroyd 9780099437093
RRP: $44.08Booksplease Price: $33.41Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers.Here, Ackroyd attempts to... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9781400075980
RRP: $48.30Booksplease Price: $35.95Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $15.73NOW AN UNMISSABLE FILM STARRING BILL NIGHY, DOUGLAS BOOTH AND OLIVIA COOKE. 'Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant' Daily MailBefore the Ripper, fear had another name.London, 1880. A series of... -
Introducing Swedenborg: 2021 by Peter Ackroyd 9780854482207
RRP: $18.80Booksplease Price: $13.40Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482207Author Peter AckroydFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint < -
Brief Lives 3 - Newton by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a... -
London: A Traveller's Reader Peter Ackroyd 9781472141651
RRP: $25.18Booksplease Price: $18.14Loved and hated in equal measure, London was for centuries the world's greatest city. Its streets, teeming with history, have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who... -
The Plato Papers: A Novel by Peter Ackroyd 9780385497695
RRP: $33.60Booksplease Price: $26.42Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497695Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
RRP: $27.28Booksplease Price: $20.54Geoffrey Chaucer has some claim to being the greatest poet in the English language. Yet he has also been considered to be an invisible poet, self-depreciating and ironic, leaving only the breath of... -
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Venice by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422563 [USED COPY]
RRP: $39.88Booksplease Price: $5.06In this magnificent vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty. He leads us... -
Colours of London: A History Peter Ackroyd 9780711269422
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $35.66Celebrated novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd paints a vivid picture of one of the world's greatest cities in this brilliant and original work, exploring how the city's many hues have come... -
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd 9780385496933
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Revolution: A History of England Volume IV by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.00Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's enthralling History of England begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from William of... -
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $23.08Booksplease Price: $17.79A 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 Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel by Peter Ackroyd 9780307473776
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $33.94Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473776Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint -
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The Lambs Of London by Peter Ackroyd 9780099472094 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $5.42Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It... -
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Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd 9781786898944 [USED COPY]
RRP: $25.20Booksplease Price: $4.73Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and... -
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: $20.98Booksplease Price: $16.23Making a major part of England's literary heritage accessible to a new audience, Peter Ackroyd's The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling renders Geoffrey Chaucer's timeless tales in lucid, compelling... -
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Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd 9780701176136 [USED COPY]
RRP: $52.50Booksplease Price: $6.95Lavish, large format picture book about London, with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable text (taken from London: A Biography), new pictures and new captions. Divided into four parts: 1) In the beginning... -
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $26.75'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentThe penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory... -
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The Lambs Of London by Peter Ackroyd 9780701177447 [USED COPY]
RRP: $33.58Booksplease Price: $5.23At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs: Charles, constrained by the tedium of his work as a clerk at the East India Company, taking refuge in a drink or three too... -
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: $35.68Booksplease Price: $21.57'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of... -
The English Soul: The Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd 9781789148459
RRP: $42.00Booksplease Price: $32.63The 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,... -
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London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587 [USED COPY]
RRP: $63.00Booksplease Price: $5.04Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is a living organism, with its own laws...