His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishment, and sex and theatre. Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through the city of London. 9780099570387 London 51.8000 NZD InStock /shop/books/non-fiction /shop/books /shop/books/non-fiction/history/general /shop/books/non-fiction/history An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London.

An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exuberant guide to times of plague and pestilence, fire and floods, crime and punishmen. Following on from Foundation, Tudors is the second volume in Peter Ackroyds astonishing series, The History of England.Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower.

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