Wilkie Collins

Four stars, (A) perfect little biography – Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *
With deft strokes, Peter Ackroyd’s biography portrays his character and sets him in context, weaving critical appraisals seamlessly into the story of his life. The bravura of this biography lies in its brilliantly judged brevity. – Iain Finlayson * The Times *
Unfailingly perceptive – Andrew Taylor * Independent *
This biography is compulsive reading * The Economist *
Insightful – Judith Flanders * Sunday Telegraph *
Neat and informative – DJ Taylor * Independent on Sunday *
Always absorbing – Lesley McDowell * Glasgow Sunday Herald *
Concise but wide-ranging… A fitting tribute to [Collins’] legacy – Sally Morris * Daily Mail *

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.

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