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The Concise Biography

Peter Ackroyd

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Vintage
02 July 2012

History; British & Irish history; Social & cultural 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.

Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcaster, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey - historical, geographical and imaginative - through 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 punishment, and sex and theatre. He brings the ever changing streets alive for the reader and shows us what lies beneath our feet and above our heads. His biography is as rich in detail and fizzing with vitality as the city itself.

By: Peter Ackroyd
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Edition: Abridged edition
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 129mm, Spine: 43mm
Weight: 566g
ISBN: 9780099570387
ISBN 10: 0099570386
Pages: 688
Publication Date: 02 July 2012
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , Primary , Undergraduate
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More and of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography and Thames: Sacred River. Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. 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.

Reviews for London: The Concise Biography

Peter Ackroyd is the greatest living chronicler of London * Independent * Peter Ackroyd was born to write the biography of London...a brilliant book * Sunday Telegraph * It would be no exaggeration to say that Peter Ackroyd's 'biography' of our captial is the book about London -- A N Wilson * Daily Mail * You will not find a better, more visionary book about a place we take for granted * Observer * [London] may be several years old but it remains one of the leading narratives as he cleverly weaves through centuries of history to reveal to us the hundreds of different cities within a city. -- Fiona Hamilton * The Times *