From the author of the bestselling London- The Biography, a poetic and powerful urban history of life and legend beneath London.
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.
Ackroyd is a knowledgeable and evocative guide to London’s
different archaeological levels
*Times Higher Education Supplement*
As ever his research is meticulous, his scope expansive, his
writing definitive. Every sentence is delivered with judicial
gravity and command...Once again, Ackroyd shares his vision of a
mythical city most do not see
*Time Out*
While many authors have shone a flashlight on London's catacombs
and tunnels, Ackroyd's vision is infra-red...skilled at connecting
the past, present and future...For those looking for a highly
readable introduction, plumb and depth to get a copy
*Londonist*
This book is not a straightforward history of London's relationship
with the clay on which it stands but a poetic invoking of what
Ackroyd perceives as the diabolic terror of the earth
*Metro*
Other worlds lurk below London, and Ackroyd revels in them. The
book is both an absorbing history of those parts of the capital
that lie beneath our feet and a meditation on the meaning we give
them
*Literary Review*
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