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EXCLUSIVE: Peter Ackroyd’s The History of England is headed ... The author has published five of the six planned books, which cover topics from Stonehenge to Henry VIII, Elizabeth I, William ...

Ackroyd's Charlie Chaplin ... commedia dell'arte to the contemporary pantomime is homoerotic". Yes, perhaps, Peter, but not all. There is, however, a refreshing lack of qualm.

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 ...

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 ...

There is always some line or passage which is interesting or enlightening. You can find good in almost any book. Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd is out now in paperback (Canongate Books, £8.99).

In a handsome, book-lined room overlooking a quiet London square Peter Ackroyd is hard at work on ... Most of those he has read, if the thousands of books in his study are anything to judge ...

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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