“I don’t believe that the past is necessarily in the past. It is eternal, it is always around us,” says Peter Ackroyd. And he proves this to the whole world ...

Ackroyd's brilliant historical novel is replete with secrets and intrigue, mystical and extreme incidents. The events unfolding at the excavations of ancient...

The biographical works of the famous British novelist and philologist Peter Ackroyd invariably enjoy success among Russian readers. As for the subject of his...

Peter Ackroyd, whose pen includes a number of biographies of his great compatriots - Chaucer, Shakespeare, Newton, Turner - it is no coincidence that he incl...

Many of the books written by Ackroyd are in one way or another connected with the life of London and its past, but this book is entirely dedicated to him. Fo...

The history of England is a continuous movement and a series of constant changes. But the entire history of England, starting from primitive times, is permea...

The history of England is a continuous movement and a series of constant changes. But the entire history of England, starting from primitive times, is permea...

“The House of Doctor Dee” is a novel in which reality and fiction, history and modernity are intricately intertwined. 29-year-old Matthew inherits an old hou...

The book is an apocrypha of Oscar Wilde's dying diary. It conveys with exceptional brilliance not only Wilde’s views, but also the very nature of the writer’...

For a hundred years now, Charlie Chaplin's films have delighted audiences and critics. During this time, thousands of other stars rose and went out, but he r...

Peter Ackroyd is one of the most popular modern English writers, an intellectual, a polymath, a literary critic, an expert on English history - he achieved s...