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Brilliant historical novel set in London in the late 14th century.

About the Author

Peter 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.

Reviews

The Clerkenwell Tales is a truly extraordinary feat of historical imagination: a slim novel, straining at the seams with a sort of macabre relish, in which disgust and enthusiasm jostle
*Sunday Telegraph*

Historical fiction of the utmost potency
*Daily Mail*

A tour-de-force, full of rich imaginings and strange happenings. It is as finely wrought as an illuminated manuscript
*Scotsman*

A brilliantly imagined thriller
*Guardian*

Roars and leaps through the London streets with thrilling energy...the result is tremendous. Ackroyd is a wonderful guide and torchbearer, bringing light to the darkest corners of humanity
*Independent*

The Clerkenwell Tales is a truly extraordinary feat of historical imagination: a slim novel, straining at the seams with a sort of macabre relish, in which disgust and enthusiasm jostle * Sunday Telegraph *
Historical fiction of the utmost potency * Daily Mail *
A tour-de-force, full of rich imaginings and strange happenings. It is as finely wrought as an illuminated manuscript * Scotsman *
A brilliantly imagined thriller * Guardian *
Roars and leaps through the London streets with thrilling energy...the result is tremendous. Ackroyd is a wonderful guide and torchbearer, bringing light to the darkest corners of humanity * Independent *