Peter Ackroyd

Fort in8, souple, couverture rempliee, 967p, bon etat, deux cahiers d'illustrations noir et blanc et couleurs, Editions Stock, Coll. Les mots etrangers, 2003

Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the …

1399. La dernière année du XIVe siècle. Rumeurs d'apocalypse. Des ombres glissent la nuit dans le dangereux dédale des rues de Londres, de ce Londres qui n'est encore qu'une cité de bois. Des notables se hâtent, pour un rendez-vous secret, vers l'une des ruines romaines dont la ville est encore parsemée. Un drapier …

This novel centres on the famous 16th-century alchemist and astrologer John Dee. Reputedly a black magician, he was imprisoned by Queen Mary for allegedly attempting to kill her through sorcery. When Matthew Palmer inherits an old house in Clerkenwell, he feels that he has become part of its past.

Peter Ackroyd’s marvelous 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, meeting Shakespeare on his own ground. Written with intuition and imagination unique to Peter Ackroyd, …