Blogs in August 2016

The Trial of Elizabeth Cree 10th August 2016

The year is 1880, the setting London’s poor and dangerous Limehouse district, home to immigrants and criminals. A series of brutal murders has occurred, and, as Ackroyd leads us down London’s dark streets, the sense of time and place...

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London Under 30th November 2014

London Under is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting...

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Venice Pure City 1st January 1970

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London: The Biography 1st January 1970

London, seen as a living organism, Ackroyd charts the ups and downs of this city, the people, the quirks, the history – and there is soooo much to tell. A real background setter for this capital of capital cities.

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Three Brothers 1st January 1970

Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel and Sam Hanway, born on a post-war council estate in Camden Town. Marked out from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the...

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