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A fascinating anthology of Peter Ackroyd's journalism, lectures, short stories and miscellaneous writing

About the Author

Peter Ackroyd's masterpiece London- The Biography was published in 2000, to critical acclaim and commercial success. His novels include Hawksmoor, Chatterton, Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem and, mostly recently, The Plato Papers. He is the biographer of T. S. Eliot, Dickens, Blake and Thomas More. In 2000 Thomas Wright edited Table Talk Oscar Wilde, the first English anthology of Oscar Wilde's spoken stories. He has published a number of articles in the Times Literary Supplement and regularly reviews books for the Daily Telegraph. He has worked as Peter Ackroyd's researcher on a number of his recent projects.