The English see ghosts more often than anyone else. Peter Ackroyd views this feature of his compatriots as a cultural, historical and even geographical pheno...

Peter Ackroyd is one of the most titled English writers, a member of the Royal Society of Literature, and Commander of the Order of the British Empire. His b...

Peter Ackroyd's imagination dazzles in this brilliant novel written in the voice of Victor Frankenstein himself. Mary Shelley and Shelley are characters i...

The novel by modern English writer Peter Ackroyd can be classified as a popular genre of “alternative history”. The author invites us to imagine what would h...

With Venice: Pure City, Peter Ackroyd is at his most magical and magisterial, presenting a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of th...

80s of the XIX century. A London suburb is shaken by a series of sophisticated murders committed by a criminal nicknamed "The Golem of Limehouse". The case i...

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...

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...

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