Peter Ackroyd

Blake. (Signed).

Sinclair-Stevenson 1995 Hardback, 480pp. "16 pages of black-and-white and 24 pages of full-color illustrations, plus 73 illustrations in text. ", (ISBN: 9781856192781). Very Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Chatterton (Abacus Books)

Abacus 1991 Paperback, 240pp. Belysning af englænderen Thomas Chattertons sørgelige endeligt i 3 tre handlinger i 3 forskellige århundreder. (ISBN: 9780349100081). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Chatterton

Abacus 1988 Paperback, 240pp. A novel with three intertwined the story of Thomas Chatterton, the eighteenth-century forger, the story of George Meredith, who posed for the well-known nineteenth-century painting of Chatterton's death, and the story of two twentieth-century writers investigating an eighteenth-century manuscript Some foxing, (ISBN: 9780349100081). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Chaucer (Brief Lives)

Vintage 2005 Paperback, 144pp. Geoffrey Chaucer enjoyed an eventful life, serving with the Duke of Clarence and with Edward III. Through his wife, Philippa, he gained the patronage of John of Gaunt, which helped him carve out a career at Court. His official posts included Controller of Customs at the Port of London, Knight of the Shire for Kent, and King's Forester. He went on numerous adventurous diplomatic missions to France and Italy, and in 1359 was taken prisoner in France and ransomed. He began to write in the 1360s, and his masterpiece,The Canterbury Tales, dominated the last part of his life. He died in 1400. Peter Ackroyd's short biography, rich in drama and colour, evokes the medieval world of London and Kent, and provides an entertaining introduction to Chaucer's poetry. From the Hardcover edition. (ISBN: 9780099287483). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Chaucer (Brief Lives)

Vintage 2005 Paperback, 144pp. Geoffrey Chaucer enjoyed an eventful life, serving with the Duke of Clarence and with Edward III. Through his wife, Philippa, he gained the patronage of John of Gaunt, which helped him carve out a career at Court. His official posts included Controller of Customs at the Port of London, Knight of the Shire for Kent, and King's Forester. He went on numerous adventurous diplomatic missions to France and Italy, and in 1359 was taken prisoner in France and ransomed. He began to write in the 1360s, and his masterpiece,The Canterbury Tales, dominated the last part of his life. He died in 1400. Peter Ackroyd's short biography, rich in drama and colour, evokes the medieval world of London and Kent, and provides an entertaining introduction to Chaucer's poetry. From the Hardcover edition. (ISBN: 9780099287483). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

The Clerkenwell Tales

Vintage 2004 Paperback, 224pp. From a master historian -- a brilliantly original historical novel set in late-14th century London. 'I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods.' Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St. Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she 'see' a future in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? This clever and colourful novel begins with The Nun's Tale, and continues with The Friar's Tale, The Merchant's Tale and The Clerk's Tale. Thus, story by story, Peter Ackroyd builds his portrait of medieval London. The people are disenchanted with the Church, with its wealth and corruption, its Pope in Rome and its Pope in Avignon. But heresy is dangerous -- almost as dangerous as rebellion. This is a novel about spies and counterspies, radicals and idealists, murderers and arsonists, sects and secret societies. It is a tale richly atmospheric and satisfying in its historical detail. From the Hardcover edition. some tanning, (ISBN: 9780749386306). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Dickens

Sinclair-Stevenson Ltd 1990 Hardback, 1195pp. Charles Dickens's life is a story of rags to riches, complete with bankruptcy, prison, forced child labour, and fame and fortune overshadowed by guilt and secrecy - rather like the plot of one of his novels. Indeed, Dickens drew strongly on his own experiences as the source for much of his fiction. Here the author offers a fresh view of Dickens's remarkable life story. Dickens's novels brim with references: they are located in the places he lived in and visited, peopled with characters he knew, and inspired by the preoccupations that haunted his mind. Ackroyd highlights the reality of Victorian life, warts and all, and the issues that sparked Dickens's fervent calls for social reform; and he also charts the influential landmarks of that era, such as the coming of the railways, the effects upon society of the industrial revolution and the expansion of the British Empire. Dickens was a complex personality. He apparently had everything - fame, success, wealth - but he died harbouring the great sadness he had carried with him all his life, and he was humble enough to forbid a grand funeral. Like many eminent Victorians, he led a double life. Although he insisted that nothing in the newspapers he edited should offend his middle-class readers, he regularly indulged in dubious night-time escapades with fellow-author Wilkie Collins and, for the final 13 years of his life, kept a secret mistress, Ellen Ternan. (ISBN: 9781856190008). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Dominion: A History Of England Volume V

Picador 2019 Paperback, 352pp. Begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901, (ISBN: 9781509881321). Very good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Hawksmoor

Abacus Software 1993 Paperback, 224pp. So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . (ISBN: 9780349100579). Fair.

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Peter Ackroyd

The Lambs of London

Vintage 2005 Paperback, 256pp. Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile. The great solace of her life is her brother Charles, an aspiring writer. It is no surprise when Mary falls for the bookseller's son, antiquarian William Ireland, from whom Charles has purchased a book. But this is no ordinary book it once belonged to William Shakespeare himself. And William Ireland with his green eyes and red hair is no ordinary young man. In The Lambs of London, Peter Ackroyd brilliantly creates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, a world in which a clever son will stop at nothing to impress his showman father, and no one knows quite what to believe. Ingenious and vividly alive, The Lambs of London is a poignant, gripping novel of betrayal and deceit. From the Trade Paperback edition. (ISBN: 9780099472094). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

The Thames: Sacred River

Chatto and Windus 2007 Hardback, 608pp. The Thames displays the same qualities asLondon: The Biography: scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place and character. It is hugely enjoyable and sure to be another mammoth bestseller. The Thamesis about the river from source to sea, from prehistoric times to the present, its flora and fauna, the paintings and photographs inspired by the Thames, its geology, smells and colours, its literature, laws, magic and myths, its architecture, trade and weather. The reader learns about the fishes that swim in the river and the boats that ply on its surface, about floods and tides, hauntings and suicides, miasmas and sewers, locks, weirs and embankments. Here is Shelley floating on the river under poetical beech trees, Hogarth getting roaring drunk on a boat trip to Gravesend, William Morris wondering whether the same Thames water flowed past his windows in Hammersmith as flowed past his house at Kelmscott, 100 miles upriver. Peter Ackroyd has a genius for digging out the most surprising and entertaining details, and for writing about them in the most magisterial prose. DJ; Heavy. Some foxing to endpapers and page edges. (ISBN: 9780701172848). Good.

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Peter Ackroyd

Tudors: The History Of England Volume II

Pan Books 2013 Paperback, 507pp. 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. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with Rome, and his relentless pursuit of both the perfect wife and the perfect heir; of how the brief reign of the teenage king, Edward VI, gave way to the violent reimposition of Catholicism and the stench of bonfires under 'Bloody Mary'. It tells, too, of the long reign of Elizabeth I, which, though marked by civil strife, plots against the queen and even an invasion force, finally brought stability. Above all, however, it is the story of the English Reformation and the making of the Anglican Church. (ISBN: 9781447236818). Very good.

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Thomas Acton

Surviving Peoples: Gypsies

Macdonald Educational 1981 Hardcover, 48pp. Outlines the history of the gypsies and describes contemporary gypsy life throughout the world. Large - additional postage may apply. (ISBN: 9780356059563). Good.

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Gilbert Adair

Alice Through the Needle's Eye

Macmillan 1985 Paperback, 192pp. Alice is trying to thread a needle by the fire on a snowy afternoon, when she finds herself in an alphabetical land populated by Siamese-Twin Cats (joined at the tail), the Welsh Rabbit (with his toasted cheese), the Kangaroo, the spelling bees, the Italian Hairdresser who uses a small crocodile as a pair of scissors, Jack and Jill, and best of all, the Grampus. (ISBN: 9780330291583). Fair.

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John Adair

Effective Teambuilding: How To Make a Winning Team (Effective¦ Series)

Pan Books 1986 Paperback, 224pp. Most tasks in modern business are carried out by teams, so the ability to build and lead them is a vital management attribute. John Addair shows how productive working groups can be forged by selecting the right people, working together, sustaining group morale, and raising standards of performance. Effective teambuilding is enriched by a potent blend of examples, anecdoted, case studies and action checklists, all designed to improve team performance. Foxing; owner's name inside. (ISBN: 9780330298094). Good.

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