{"product_id":"ackroyd-p-london-9780099570387","title":"Ackroyd P London","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd''s magisterial biography of the city of London.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePrize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads. His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London * Independent *\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London...a brilliant book * Sunday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eIt would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our captial is \u003ci\u003ethe \u003c\/i\u003ebook about London -- A N Wilson * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003eYou will not find a better, more visionary book about a place we take for granted * Observer *\u003cbr\u003e[London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city. -- Fiona Hamilton * The Times *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732302639447,"sku":"9780099570387","price":17.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099570387.jpg?v=1719996332","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/ackroyd-p-london-9780099570387","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}