Published: 10 May 2010
ISBN: 9780141042015
Imprint: Penguin General UK
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
RRP: $22.99

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Hawksmoor

Peter Ackroyd

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A thrilling murder mystery set in the heart of London's East End.

Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Christopher Wren, builds seven London churches that house a terrible secret, and the 1980s, when London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sight of certain old churches, Hawksmoor is a brilliant tale of darkness and shadow.

Published: 10 May 2010
ISBN: 9780141042015
Imprint: Penguin General UK
Format: Paperback
Pages: 288
RRP: $22.99

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Peter Ackroyd

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.

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Praise for Hawksmoor

Grips the imagination like an obsession
Guardian

Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed
Independent on Sunday

Extraordinary, amazing, vivid, convincing. [Ackroyd's] view of life questions the role not just of the novel but of art and history, memory, time and much else
Financial Times