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Acclaimed novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd is known for his wealth of books tackling the history and culture of his native London and taking on biographies of historic luminaries including ...

But let Peter Ackroyd, the author of a compact new biography ... poetry and criticism, with some 35 books to his credit. This is an adept volume — a sort of “Chaplin 101” — but it breaks ...

And now we have Peter Ackroyd’s Queer City to put it all in context – 'Twas ever thus, if you like – charting the history of gay life in the capital from the Romans to the present day. The historian ...

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And as Peter Ackroyd points out in the final chapter of his elegant brief life of the poet-writer, Poe's influence pervades the late 19th and early 20th centuries, from Baudelaire and Symbolism to ...

At the age of seven Charlie Chaplin was sleeping on park benches when he wasn’t in the workhouse. His mother, a singer, was in a lunatic asylum. Charles Chaplin senior, another music-hall artist ...

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