{"product_id":"dickens-9780099437093","title":"Dickens","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eLondon Under;  \u003c\/i\u003ebiographies of figures  including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England\u003ci\u003e. \u003c\/i\u003eHe has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTrade Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eI can do no more than praise, recommend, insist that you buy and read this book.It supersedes all other Dickens biographies * Anthony Burgess, Independent *\u003cbr\u003eA truly magnificent biography.This is the complete, the nonesuch, the definitive Dickens * Sheridan Morley *\u003cbr\u003eA breathtaking feat of scholarship * The Times *\u003cbr\u003eLandmark biography… fascinating and colourful detail… first rate * Daily Express *\u003cbr\u003eCan't imagine a better introduction to the life and work of the quintessential English novelist than Peter Ackroyd's superb biography -- Simon Shaw * Mail on Sunday *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732225012055,"sku":"9780099437093","price":16.14,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099437093.jpg?v=1719996038","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/dickens-9780099437093","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}