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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 ReviewYet another wonderful biography of a city -- Lesley McDowell * The Independent on Sunday *
He is brilliant on beginnings... Ackroyd covers an immense amount of ground with verve and elegance * Independent on Sunday *
Ackroyd tells the story well...where he excels is in his descriptions...he writes beguilingly * Guardian *
Ackroyd is hugely intelligent and formidably industrious; there can be few people, Venetian or foreign, who know Venice better than he... It is full of good things * Daily Telegraph *
Elegant... Interweaving psychogeographical investigation with history, picking out defining characteristics which were present from its earliest days * Scotsman *
