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Albion - The Origins of the English Imagination by Peter Ackroyd
$30.00 AUD
$75.00 (60% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: near fine
This title covers the whole of English cultural history from its roots in the Anglo-Saxon period, through the centuries, to numerous examples from contemporary times. Explorations include: forgery and plagerism; ruins and antiquarianism; the English love of miniatures; and drag acts and eccentrics.
Charlie Chaplin by Peter Ackroyd
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$22.99 (56% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
He was the very first icon of the silver screen, and is one of the most recognisable faces in Hollywood, even a hundred years on from his first film. But what of the man behind the moustache? The director holding the camera as well as acting in front of it? Peter Ackroyd's new biography turns the spotli ...Show more
Dickens by Peter Ackroyd
$30.00 AUD
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS | Reading Level: very good
Peter Ackroyd creates Dickens as the consummate artist & entertainer, a man whose public persona gave little hint of the darkness of his private life.
First Light by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
First Light begins with an ominous coincidence: the reappearance of the ancient night sky during the excavation of an astronomically aligned Neolithic grave in Dorset. A group of eccentrics -- archaeologists, astronomers, local rustics, a civil servant, and a stand-up comic -- converge on the site, dist ...Show more
Illustrated London by Peter Ackroyd
$60.00 AUD
$79.95 (24% off)
Category: RARE AND COLLECTIBLE | Reading Level: very good
A magnificent pictorial history of London, to tie in with Peter Ackroyd's TV series (BBC) based on his bestselling London: A BiographyLavish, large format picture book about London, with Peter Ackroyd's inimitable text and captions. Divided into three parts:Fire and Destiny London as metropolis; maps an ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
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$19.95 (49% off)
Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
Secondhand. "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 the ...Show more
The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
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Category: SECONDHAND BOOKS
'I am sister to the day and night. I am sister to the woods.' Sister Clarisse, a nun in the House of St Mary at Clerkenwell, experiences visions. She dreams of the English King. Are her prophesies the babblings of the crazed? Or can she 'see' a future in which Henry Bolingbroke overthrows Richard II? Th ...Show more