Peter Ackroyd
Venice: Pure City
$69.95$16.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
In this sumptuous vision of Venice, Peter Ackroyd turns his unparalleled skill at evoking place from London and the River Thames, to Italy and the city of myth, mystery and beauty, set like a jewel in its glistening lago... Buy or find out more →
Thames: Sacred River
$39.95$32.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, Thames: Sacred River is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader... Buy or find out more →
Chaucer: Brief Lives
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
Geoffrey Chaucer, who died in 1400, enjoyed an eventful life. His Troilus and Cressida is the first example of Modern English literature, and his masterpiece, Canterbury Tales,the forerunner of the English novel, dominat... Buy or find out more →
Poe: A Life Cut Short
$39.95 – Hardcover book / Chatto & Windus
Edgar Allan Poe served as a soldier and began his literary career composing verses modelled on Byron; soon he was trying out his 'prose-tales' - often horror melodramas such as The Fall of the House of Usher. As editor o... Buy or find out more →
Shakespeare: The Biography
$23.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Peter Ackroyd's marvellous biography is a living attempt to reach into the heart of Shakespeare.He creates an intimate and immediate connection with his subject, so that the book reads like the work of a contemporary - m... Buy or find out more →
The Casebook Of Victor Frankenstein
$32.95 – Trade paperback / Chatto & Windus
It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks. ... Buy or find out more →
The Fall Of Troy
$0.00 – Paperback book / Vintage
I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the inv... Buy or find out more →
The Lambs Of London
$16.95 – Trade paperback / Vintage
At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs: Charles, constrained by the tedium of his work as a clerk at the East India Company, taking refuge in a drink or three too many while spreading hi... Buy or find out more →
Newton: Brief Lives
$24.95 – Paperback book / Vintage
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five, while at home in Lincolnshire escaping the great plague of 1665, a period of which he wrote... Buy or find out more →
Newton: Brief Lives
$12.95 – Trade cloth / Chatto & Windus
Sir Isaac Newton (1642-1727) is said to have made his greatest contributions to original thought in science in 1665-6 while at his parents' home in Lincolnshire escaping the Great Plague (which had closed the universitie... Buy or find out more →
Cities Of Blood: Voyages Through Time
$17.95 – Paperback book / Dorling Kindersley
Presents the traditions and rituals of the Olmecs, Mayas, and Aztecs of pre-Columbian civilization. Buy or find out more →
Kingdom Of The Dead: Voyages Through Time
$17.95 – Paperback book / Dorling Kindersley
Explores the history of Egypt from its origins through its conquest by Alexander the Great. Buy or find out more →
Escape From Earth
$17.95 – Paperback book / Dorling Kindersley
Exploring the universe has always been a dream of humans and, especially for the last 50 years, a constant aim of science. From the early days of rocketry to the creative minds of science fiction writers, Escape from Ear... Buy or find out more →