EXCLUSIVE: Peter Ackroyd’s The History of England is headed to the screen after Pulse Films optioned the fiction and non-fiction rights to the epic six-part book series. The author has published ...

In a handsome, book-lined room overlooking a quiet London square Peter Ackroyd is hard at ... that consumed 12 years of the author's life. Ackroyd, however, is made of sterner stuff, as he also ...

In the Western world today, Peter Ackroyd is one of the finest writers ... Faith of a Nation offers an episodic and biographical account of books, individuals, and communities that have done ...

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 ...

In his first book for children, Ackroyd (London: The Biography) brings a literary flair to the information-packed debut of his Voyages Through Time series, the first of 10 books planned.

But let Peter Ackroyd, the author of a compact new biography of Chaplin, sum up what made the actor and director so appealing: "an irrepressible optimism and jauntiness in 'the cruel, cruel world.' ...

As Chaucer wrote of the Wife of Bath: For she coude of that art the olde daunce. Now here comes Peter Ackroyd, novelist, biographer and historian, with “The Canterbury Tales” for a new ...

There is perhaps no other English writer today as dedicated a Londoner as Peter Ackroyd. Not only are many of his most interesting novels set there, but his devotion to the city led him to write ...

Peter Ackroyd, prolific novelist and biographer ... For me, there's no distinction to be made between the activities, and the books are complementary. In fiction, you can represent that collision ...

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