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Ackroyd braves the accusation of self-indulgence in ... and to gather material for a pair of books about modern America. Peter Rose follows James out west. Peter Rose - The Restless Analyst Peter Rose ...
History books are also the slowest of slow news ... This is the sixth non-fiction book Peter Ackroyd has written about London – the guy really knows his subject. Queer City has a very specific ...
and eventually writing my own books and articles about London. And it all began with this one inspirational read at the turn of the Millennium. I owe Peter Ackroyd an incalculable debt for ...
Christianity, Peter Ackroyd declares at the outset of The ... As literacy increased, lay men and women acquired “Books of Hours” to help them pray, which were handed on through generations ...
No surprise, then, that so few modern life-stories of cities are worth reading. Think of Peter Ackroyd’s “London: The Biography” (2000); Geert Mak’s “Amsterdam” (1995); Simon Sebag ...
The most fascinating London-based books and films transport the reader ... The Biography, by Peter Ackroyd. Possibly the greatest contemporary history of the city, the weighty tome reaches back ...
Undeterred, Peter Ackroyd has undertaken to tell the story of the English ... It is in the context of contemplating Ackroyd’s near genius in these earlier books that I dare to express a bit of ...
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd (Reaktion ... End by Jean-Marc Jancovici and Christophe Blain (Particular Books) A collaboration between a climate expert and a graphic ...