Title: Peter Ackroyd: The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures
Publisher: Random House UK
Publication Date: 2001
Language: English
ISBN 10: 0701173009
ISBN 13: 9780701173005
Binding: hardcover
Condition: Good
Weight: 31 ounces

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During the 1970s and the early 1980s Peter Ackroyd wrote countless book reviews and articles for the Spectator, on literature, film and a number of social and cultural issues. The collection offers a selection of these incisive and entertaining pieces, which established Ackroyd's reputation as a writer. It also includes a selection of his reviews as chief book reviewer for the Times, as well as three of his short stories.

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Peter Ackroyd’s masterpiece London: The Biography was published in 2000 to critical acclaim and commercial
success. An award-winning biographer and a novelist, he has won a Somerset Maugham Award, the Guardian Fiction Prize and the Whitbread Prize for Biography. Thomas Wright edited Table Talk Oscar Wilde, the first English anthology of Oscar Wilde’s spoken stories. He was Peter Ackroyd’s researcher on a number of his recent projects.

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