Peter Ackroyd: The Collection: Journalism, Reviews, Essays, Short Stories, Lectures

Ackroyd, Peter

ISBN 10: 0701173009 / ISBN 13: 9780701173005

Published by Random House UK, 2001

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Bibliographic Details

• 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
• Edition: 1758063355.
• Condition: Very Good
• Dust Jacket Condition: 12311794
• Signed: 9/16/2025 10:55:55 PM
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Synopsis

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.

About the Author

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.