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Venice by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07In 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... -
Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73'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... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.74Peter 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... -
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46He 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... -
Auden Peter Ackroyd 9781836391722
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £17.76Featured 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... -
Alfred Hitchcock by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £11.94Alfred 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... -
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
Booksplease Price: £3.41Two 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... -
Wilkie Collins by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Short 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: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46London 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... -
Chatterton by Peter Ackroyd 9780802134806
Booksplease Price: £14.68Thomas Chatterton (1752-1770), apparently a suicide at 18, posthumously astonished literary England when he was revealed as the author of a sequence of famous and influential "medieval" poems he... -
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Jack The Ripper and the East End: Introduction by Peter Ackroyd by Peter Ackroyd 9780701182472 [USED COPY]
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £3.16In 1888, Whitechapel - at the heart of the inner East End - was the most (in)famous place in the country, widely imagined as a site of the blackest and deepest horror. Its streets and alleys were... -
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd 9781786898944
RRP: £12.00Booksplease Price: £9.11Two 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 9780385497718
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £23.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497718Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 848Imprint Bantam Doubleday DellPublisher... -
Peter Ackroyd by Susana Onega 9780746308394
RRP: £18.69Booksplease Price: £18.10Peter Ackroyd (b. 1947) in internationally celebrated as a novelist and also well known as poet, biographer and reviewer. He came to public notice after the publication of his award-winning novel,... -
Shakespeare: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9781400075980
RRP: £23.00Booksplease Price: £18.44Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781400075980Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 572Imprint Random House IncPublisher... -
London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.05An 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... -
Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.37Just 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... -
Clerkenwell Tales Peter Ackroyd 9780749386306
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.16The 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: £20.99Booksplease Price: £15.91Dickens 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... -
London: The Biography by Peter Ackroyd 9780099422587
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.74Much 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... -
Venice: Pure City by Peter Ackroyd 9780307473790
Booksplease Price: £18.91Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473790Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 432Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
Introducing Swedenborg: 2021 by Peter Ackroyd 9780854482207
RRP: £8.95Booksplease Price: £6.38Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780854482207Author Peter AckroydFormat HardbackPage Count 92Imprint The Swedenborg SocietyPublisher... -
The Life of Thomas More by Peter Ackroyd 9780385496933
RRP: £22.00Booksplease Price: £16.88Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385496933Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 480Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Bantam... -
Colours of London: A History Peter Ackroyd 9780711269422
RRP: £25.00Booksplease Price: £18.18Celebrated 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... -
Dan Leno And The Limehouse Golem by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.49NOW 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... -
London: A Traveller's Reader Peter Ackroyd 9781472141651
RRP: £11.99Booksplease Price: £8.64Loved 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: £16.00Booksplease Price: £12.31Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780385497695Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 192Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
Chaucer: Brief Lives by Peter Ackroyd 9780099287483
Booksplease Price: £5.25Geoffrey 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... -
Brief Lives 3 - Newton by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.73Isaac 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... -
Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £22.98Highly original and magnificent in scope, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination discovers the roots of English cultural history in the Anglo-Saxon period, and traces it through the centuries... -
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £9.46The English see more ghosts than any other nation. From medieval times to the present day, stories have been told about ghosts who avenge injustice, souls who long for peace and spooks who just want... -
Tudors: The History of England Volume II by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Following on from Foundation, Tudors is the second volume in Peter Ackroyd's astonishing series, The History of England.Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the... -
Foundation: The History of England Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £9.99Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first... -
The Canterbury Tales: A retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Geoffrey Chaucer
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £6.41Making 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... -
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein: A Novel by Peter Ackroyd 9780307473776
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £15.95Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780307473776Author Peter AckroydFormat PaperbackPage Count 368Imprint Anchor BooksPublisher Random... -
A Brief Guide to William Shakespeare by Peter Ackroyd 9781849010481
Booksplease Price: £23.66An accessible and entertaining journey through the life, times, and work of the Bard - Enigma. Master of language. The greatest comedian in history? The most famous writer in the world. But isn't he... -
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £30.00Booksplease Price: £18.61The 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... -
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'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 Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
RRP: £9.99Booksplease 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,...