Peter Ackroyd, author portrait

Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd is the author of London: The Biography, Albion: The Origins of the English Imagination, Shakespeare: The Biography, and Thames: The Biography. He has written acclaimed biographies of T. S. Eliot, Charles Dickens, William Blake, Sir Thomas More, and Charlie Chaplin, as well as several successful novels. He has won the Whitbread Book Award for Biography, 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 Award for Literature. His most recent book was a brief biography of Wilkie Collins.
Alfred Hitchcock
Blitz
Wilkie Collins
Charlie Chaplin
Three Brothers
London Under
Milton in America
The Limehouse Golem
Venice
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Thames
The Canterbury Tales
Poe
The Fall of Troy
Newton
J.M.W. Turner
Chaucer
The Lambs of London
Shakespeare
The Clerkenwell Tales
Albion
London
The Plato Papers
The Life of Thomas More

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Books

Alfred Hitchcock
Blitz
Wilkie Collins
Charlie Chaplin
Three Brothers
London Under
Milton in America
The Limehouse Golem
Venice
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein
Thames
The Canterbury Tales
Poe
The Fall of Troy
Newton
J.M.W. Turner
Chaucer
The Lambs of London
Shakespeare
The Clerkenwell Tales
Albion
London
The Plato Papers
The Life of Thomas More

Media

Thames Book Trailer

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