{"product_id":"shakespeare-9780749386559","title":"Shakespeare","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\u003eThis is a commendably thorough, engagingly self-effacing new look at a writer whom literary history has never quite managed to pin down, nor ever will. It is\u003cb\u003e the book Peter Ackroyd was born to write\u003c\/b\u003e -- Anthony Holden * Daily Mail *\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eShakespeare: The Biography\u003c\/i\u003e is everything one would expect from a biographer at the top of his game... his recreation of London life is masterful. He knows the plays and understands better than academic biographers how Shakespeare went about researching and writing... His biography ranks with the best of them * Financial Times *\u003cbr\u003eHis biography is conventional, even cautious; grounded in common sense and wide reading, and written with the sensibility of a working novelist -- Nicholas Shakespeare * Saturday Telegraph *\u003cbr\u003eA big, expansive, densely imagined book -- Sam Leith * Spectator *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eYou will not find a better book on Shakespeare\u003c\/b\u003e... Ackroyd has genuinely set a new standard for accounts of Shakespeare's life - Colin MacCabe, \u003ci\u003eIndependent\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48736652656983,"sku":"9780749386559","price":15.29,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780749386559.jpg?v=1723810750","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/shakespeare-9780749386559","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}