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.

This is a commendably thorough, engagingly self-effacing new look at a writer whom literary history has never quite managed to pin down, nor ever will. It is the book Peter Ackroyd was born to write

1. 5/5

   Ackroyd's friend Shakespeare

   As always Peter Ackroyd invites the reader into a world in which he seems very comfortable and knowledgeable. Even for those of use who know quite a lot of what there is to know about Shakespeare the man, this is a most pleasant and informative read. Ruby Jand, author of 'Shakespeare Calling, the book'

   Ruby

   15 augusti 2016

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.

This is a commendably thorough, engagingly self-effacing new look at a writer whom literary history has never quite managed to pin down, nor ever will. It is the book Peter Ackroyd was born to write

1. 5/5

   Ackroyd's friend Shakespeare

   As always Peter Ackroyd invites the reader into a world in which he seems very comfortable and knowledgeable. Even for those of use who know quite a lot of what there is to know about Shakespeare the man, this is a most pleasant and informative read. Ruby Jand, author of 'Shakespeare Calling, the book'

   Ruby

   15 augusti 2016