{"product_id":"the-english-ghost-9780099287575","title":"The English Ghost","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\u003eAckroyd's book has its fair share of terrified hauntees and, unless you're a sceptic, there are plenty of scenes that will make the hairs on the back of your neck bristle -- Simon Griffith * Mail on Sunday *\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA rich and compelling assembly of stories for winter nights\u003c\/b\u003e * New Statesman *\u003cbr\u003eThis is a wonderful little book. It's properly old-fashioned and unorthodox, a scrapbook of clues, tittle-tattle, hints and mortal byways -- Roger Clarke * Independent *\u003cbr\u003eAckroyd's collection glides seamlessly from terror to humour to downright peculiarity: it is \u003cb\u003ethe ideal read as the nights darken and Halloween approaches\u003c\/b\u003e -- Tina Jackson * Metro *\u003cbr\u003eA fascinating anthology of sightings of ghosts in England over the centuries -- Andrew Lycett * Literary Review *","brand":"Vintage Publishing","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":48732213936471,"sku":"9780099287575","price":11.69,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780099287575.jpg?v=1719995989","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/the-english-ghost-9780099287575","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}