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Thames: Sacred River by Peter Ackroyd
$39.95 AUD
Category: History
Just as Peter Ackroyd's bestselling London is the biography of the city, "Thames: Sacred River" is the biography of the river, from sea to source. Exploring its history from prehistoric times to the present day, the reader is drawn into an extraordinary world, learning about the fishes that swam in the ...Show more
The Canterbury Tales: Retelling by Peter Ackroyd by Peter Ackroyd
$29.99 AUD
Category: Classics
"The Canterbury Tales" is a major part of England's literary heritage. From the exuberant Wife of Bath's Arthurian legend to the Miller's worldly, ribald farce, these tales can be taken as a mirror of fourteenth-century London. Incorporating every style of medieval narrative - bawdy anecdote, allegorica ...Show more
The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein by Peter Ackroyd
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"It was at Oxford that I first met Bysshe. We arrived at our college on the same day; confusing to a mere foreigner, it is called University College. I had seen him from my window and had been struck by his auburn locks." The long-haired poet - 'Mad Shelley' - and the serious-minded student from Switzer ...Show more
The Death of King Arthur by Peter Ackroyd
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This is an immortal story of chivalry, treachery and death told anew for our times. The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, the quest for the ...Show more
The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend by Peter Ackroyd
$49.95 AUD
Category: History
This is an immortal story of chivalry, treachery and death brought to new life for our times. The legend of King Arthur has retained its appeal and popularity through the ages: Mordred's treason, the knightly exploits of Tristan, Lancelot's fatally divided loyalties and his love for Guenevere, and the q ...Show more
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: Plays, Theatre & Dance
From a leading historian and writer, a delightful exploration of the great English tradition of treading the boards. The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft, from the medieval period to the present day. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative s ...Show more
The English Actor: From Medieval to Modern by Peter Ackroyd
$22.99 AUD
Category: History
An original and superbly entertaining appraisal of the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. The English Actor charts the uniquely English approach to stagecraft. In thirty chapters, Peter Ackroyd describes, with superb narrative skill, the genesis of acting — deriving from the Church tradition of My ...Show more
The English Ghost: Spectres Through Time by Peter Ackroyd
$34.99 AUD
Category: Anthologies, Essays & Journals
The English, Peter Ackroyd tells us in this fascinating collection, see more ghosts than any other nation. Each region has its own particular spirits, from the Celtic ghosts of Cornwall to the dobies and boggarts of the north. Some speak and some are silent, some smell of old leather, others of fragrant ...Show more
The English Soul: Faith of a Nation by Peter Ackroyd
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries. This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed over the last fourteen hundred years. During this time, Christianity has been the predominant ...Show more
The Fall of Troy by Peter Ackroyd
$49.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
Published October 2006 'I cannot wait to bring you to the plain of Troy. To show you the place where Hector and Achilles fought. To show you the palace of Priam. And the walls where the Trojan women watched their warriors in battle with the invader. It will stir your blood, Sophia.' Sophia Chrysanth ...Show more
The History of England Volume II: Tudors by Peter Ackroyd
$32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: A History of England | Reading Level: good
This is the second volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful history of England: the Tudors. Rich in detail and atmosphere and told in vivid prose, Tudors recounts the transformation of England from a settled Catholic country to a Protestant superpower. It is the story of Henry VIII's cataclysmic break with ...Show more
The Lambs of London by Peter Ackroyd
$23.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
At the centre of this intriguing, irresistible novel are the young Lambs: Charles, constrained by the tedium of his work as a clerk at the East India Company, taking refuge in a drink or three too many while spreading his wings as a young writer, and his clever, adoring sister Mary, confined by domestic ...Show more