Thames: Sacred River

As rich and meandering and wonderful as its subject, this is one of the books of the year * Sunday Times *Mesmerising… No one is better than Ackroyd at evoking the texture and atmosphere of the distant past… Ackroyd’s gift is to write history in the idiom of a poet. As soon as you open this account of the Thames, you will want to immerse yourself in it * Daily Telegraph *A beautifully produced book… There is so much to enjoy here – Gillian Tindall * Sunday Telegraph *Wonderful. He is comprehensive - everything from mammoths to the Dome is here - but he is also playful and eccentric, so that reading this book is like being in a boat on the river itself… Peter Ackroyd’s writing is such a pleasure that Thames: Sacred River can be read all at once, with increasing delight, and afterwards dipped into, like stretches of the great waterway it charts and celebrates – Jeanette Winterson * Financial Times *A very enjoyable and highly idiosyncratic account of the subject * Spectator *His exhaustive reclaiming of the Thames inks in colourful new detail * Time *A handsome book… hours of contentment for the armchair boatman…the range of information is impressive * Irish Times *Ackroyd is a great visionary, able to concertina the present into the past, and vice versa – Craig Brown * Mail on Sunday *An imaginative history of the river with an eclectic cast * Daily Telegraph *It seems the most perfect gift – Annable Croft * Daily Express *

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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