Hawksmoor
$32.93
- Paperback
288 pages
- Release Date
26 March 2015
Summary
A thrilling murder mystery set in the heart of London’s East End.
Hawksmoor, first published in 1985, alternates between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Christopher Wren, builds seven London churches that house a terrible secret, and the 1980s, when London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the site of certain old churches. Hawksmoor is a brilliant tale of darkness and shadow.
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780141042015 |
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| ISBN-10: | 014104201X |
| Author: | Peter Ackroyd |
| Publisher: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Imprint: | Penguin Books Ltd |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 288 |
| Release Date: | 26 March 2015 |
| Weight: | 204g |
| Dimensions: | 199mm x 130mm x 19mm |
| Series: | Penguin Street Art |
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Extraordinary, amazing, vivid, convincing. [Ackroyd’s] view of life questions the role not just of the novel but of art and history, memory, time and much else
Chillingly brilliant … sinister and stunningly well executed * Independent on Sunday *Extraordinary, amazing, vivid, convincing. [Ackroyd’s] view of life questions the role not just of the novel but of art and history, memory, time and much else * Financial Times *A novel remarkable for [its] power, ingenuity and subtlety * London Review of Books *
About The Author
Peter Ackroyd
Novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. From a working-class family in west London, he got a scholarship to Cambridge and went on to Yale. He was literary editor of the Spectator and then chief book reviewer for the Sunday Times for many years. He has written over a dozen novels as well as acclaimed biographies of Eliot and Dickens, and a history of London.
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