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Peter Ackroyd

Peter Ackroyd
Peter Ackroyd CBE, FRSL (born 5 October 1949) is an English biographer, novelist, and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research.
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London Under: The Secret Hi...
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3.46 avg rating — 3,330 ratings — published 2011
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The War Against Cliché: Ess...
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