Alfred Hitchcock

Superb, insightful short life… Deft and moving – Bee Wilson * The Guardian *Irresistible – Louise Jury * The Independent *An elegant and hugely enjoyable read – Alexander Larman * Sunday Express *[A] nutritious, compact and superb critical biography – Roger Lewis * Daily Mail *Shelves of serious biographies have been written on Alfred Hitchcock, but perhaps none as pleasurable as Peter Ackroyd’s – Kate Muir * The Times *This is an elegantly spare and hugely readable book – which sends you straight back to the films – Olivia Cole * GQ *An accessible and efficient primer to [Hitchcock’s] life and work – Peter Murphy * Irish Times *A sound and highly readable introduction – Kevin Jackson * Literary Review *Ackroyd…lucidly evokes the textures of Hitchcock’s eccentric life and blends these with a confident examination of the major films in Hitchcock’s remarkable output – Brendan Daly * Sunday Business Post *An engaging introduction and intriguing invitation to revisit the films – Francine Stock * Prospect *

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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