Description
Book SynopsisPeter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers
London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and
London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England
. He 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.
Trade ReviewAfter his mammoth, shamanic aria
London: the Biography, the remarkable writer Peter Ackroyd has produced a nimble, uproarious pocket history of sex in his beloved metropolis -- Alasdair Lees * Independent *
Ackroyd has an encyclopaedic knowledge of London, and a poet's instinct for its strange, mesmerising drives and urges ...
Queer City contains something to alarm or fascinate on every page -- Craig Brown * The Mail on Sunday *
Droll, provocative and crammed to busting with startling facts -- Simon Callow * The Guardian *
If there was a prize for the most evocative or salacious chapter headings, then Peter Ackroyd's new book,
Queer City, would be the undisputed victor. They capture the rudery and naughtiness, although not the erudition of this entertaining history of the 'queer' experience in London -- Robbie Millen * The Times *
Succinct, perceptive and robust -- Rupert Christiansen * Daily Telegraph *
