New Releases by Peter Ackroyd

Novel exploring Victorian popular culture and its association with the darker sides of nineteenth-century London life. By the author of T̀he house of Doctor Dee'.

Fictionalised biography of the sixteenth-century alchemist and astrologer - some would say mountebank and magician - Doctor John Dee.

Dickens was a landmark biography when first published in 1990. This specially edited shorter edition takes the reader into the life of one of the world's greatest writers. It is published to tie-in with a 3-part BBC-TV series on Dickens with Peter Ackroyd, part drama (based on Ackroyd's Simon Callow play), part documentary, part biography.

Timothy Harcombe has remarkable psychic powers. In his visions he is transported into the creations of Charles Dickens, William Blake and Thomas Gainsborough.

" Ce " Testament ", c'est un peu la grandeur et la décadence d'un esprit brillant, insolent et révolutionnaire, brisé par le scandale et l'hypocrisie et qui découvre l'horreur de la pauvreté et de la mise à l'index. Peter Ackroyd nous restitue sa fin tragique avec une fidélité remarquable, aussi bien dans l'écriture que dans la biographie. " Le Quotidien de Paris, 14 août 1984.

Een jonge dichter ontdekt een 18e-eeuws manuscript waaruit zou blijken dat de zelfmoord van de Engelse dichter en vervalser Thomas Chatterton gefingeerd is.

When Thomas Chatterton, a brilliant literary counterfeiter, is found dead in 1770, the mysterious circumstances surrounding his death are unraveled in succeeding centuries.

Ficticio relato autobiográfico en el que se narran las vicisitudes de sus últimos años, la pobreza y el exilio parisino de quien había llegado a ser el dramaturgo más aplaudido y admirado de Londres.

A work of historical fiction using the known facts of Oscar Wilde's life, interpretated by Peter Ackroyd in a unique, but, convincing way.

A paper reprint of the 1982 edition. The novel is not set in 1666 but in the cold, destructive modern city where the sane lack purpose and the mad triumph. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR