In his 2000 book London: The Biography , British novelist, critic and biographer Peter Ackroyd wrote about the city of London as if it were a personality, a brain,… ...

Acclaimed novelist and biographer Peter Ackroyd is known for his wealth of books tackling the history and culture of his native London and taking on biographies of historic luminaries including ...

Alfred Hitchcock By Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, 279 pages, $24.99 Alfred Hitchcock: The Man Who Knew Too Much By Michael Wood, New Harvest, 144 pages, $26 By now, reasserting the artistic ...

The English soul, Ackroyd insists, requires a Christian explanation—for while Jews, Muslims, and adherents of other religions have “contributed” to the country’s religious tradition, their ...

They are pleasures aplenty. Ackroyd is superb on the 17th-century priest-poet George Herbert, and convinces us that part of the English soul resides in the sermons of John Donne.

Three Brothers, by Peter Ackroyd, Chatto & Windus, RRP£14.99, 346 pages Born in London in 1949, Peter Ackroyd is a connoisseur of the city’s dark history and labyrinths of crime.