Ackroyd: 53 books

Alfred Hitchcock rigorously controlled his public image, drawing certain carefully selected childhood anecdotes into full focus and blurring out all others. In this gripping short biography, Peter Ackroyd wrests the director’s chair back from the master of control to reveal a lugubriously jolly...

A brief yet definitive new biography of one of film's greatest legends: perfect for readers who want to know more about the iconic star but who don't want to commit to a lengthy work. He was the very first icon of the silver screen and is one of the most recognizable of Hollywood faces, even...

For lovers of Colonial Historical Fiction, British African Colonial, Graphic Novella and Rhythmic Prose…This is a book for you!Colonial Adventure is the second book in the Colonial Historical Fiction Series and the story goes thus:Colonial Adventure is a graphic novella written...

A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK Here are two thousand years of London’s history and folklore, its chroniclers and criminals and plain citizens, its food and drink and countless pleasures. Blackfriar’s and Charing Cross, Paddington and Bedlam. Westminster Abbey and St. Martin in the Fields....

Colonial Adventure is a graphic novella written in rhythmic prose depicting a slice of British colonial history (1936—1977) as experienced by individuals on both sides of the racial conflict.It begins with a British couple who leave the sophistication of London to establish a large agricultural...

Loved 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 have walked them. Its citizens have witnessed everything from pilgrimages, celebrations, acts of heroism...

Las anécdotas que dieron origen a la leyenda de Isaac Newton son innumerables: algunas son apócrifas, otras son en realidad hagiográficas y unas más son simplemente fabulosas; todas ellas provienen de sus contemporáneos, quienes lo ensalzaron, y de los siglos XVIII y XIX, cuando se le consideró...

From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Talesto recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Clarice, a nun born below Clerkenwell convent, is predicting...

For lovers of Colonial Historical Fiction and World War Two Histories, here is a book you must read!!And trust me, you are in for a different reading experience because this Colonial Historical Fiction and World War Two Fiction Book is written in Rhythmic Prose!Here is the deal…The...

The storyline follows the lives of members of the same family living in three locations during World War Two: Britain, Nazi-occupied Austria and Southern Rhodesia in Africa.On the British side, Malcolm is present at Dunkirk and his mother, Helen, experiences the bombing of London.Nell,...

David Wright's prose version of Chaucer's classic.

Following 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 transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the...

A New York Times Notable Book and Providence Journal Best Book of the Year From the incomparable Peter Ackroyd: a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries.   Victor Frankenstein, a researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley form an...

Il romanzo della vita di Shakespeare: così può essere definita questa monumentale biografia che penetra così a fondo nel mondo e nelle vicende più salienti dell’esistenza del genio inglese da apparire più come l’opera di un scrittore coevo che quella di un biografo del ventunesimo secolo....