An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd's magisterial biography of the city of London
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.
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
*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.
*The Times*
In this outstanding biography of the capital Peter Ackroyd brings
the streets alive with tales young and old.
*Daily Express*
The definitive history of London... a must read for anyone
interested in the subject.
*Daily Express*
It's this decade's finest work of non-fiction.
*The Word*
A fantastically detailed book
*Daily Express*
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