Peter Ackroyd

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  • Bibliography:
    20 Books
  • First Book:
    June 1983
  • Latest Book:
    October 2020
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Book List in Order: 20 titles

  • The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde

  • P. E. N. New Fiction I

  • Hawksmoor

    Integrating portraits of an eighteenth-century architect and a modern London police inspector, this novel focuses on two men, both undergoing a process of disintegration and both involved in a series of similar murders...

  • Chatterton

    The mystery of Chatterton is investigated by two Londoners, a young poet and an elderly female novelist, who find more riddles than answers from their search. At once hilarious, this entertaining comedy is a thoughtful exploration of the deepest issu...

  • First Light

    First Light begins with an ominous coincidence: the reappearance of the ancient night sky during the excavation of an astronomically aligned Neolithic grave in Dorset. A group of eccentrics — archaeologists, astronomers, local rustics, a civ...

  • Introduction to Dickens

  • English Music

    A boy escapes from the harsh realities of post-World War I London into the evocative world of his imagination, where a discovery of his heritage offers him the key to understanding his own past. 25,000 first printing. $25,000 ad/promo. Tour....

  • The House of Doctor Dee

    By the author of "English Music" and "Hawksmoor", this is a novel about sorcery and the possibilities of human redemption. It is concerned with the prospect of an eternal city. It is about the secrets of love and power, in a world where there can be ...

  • The Trial of Elizabeth Cree

    Now a major motion pictureA literary star returns with an addictive tale of murder in Victorian London. Peter Ackroyd is "our most exciting and original writer... one of the few English writers of his generation who will be read in a hundred years' t...



  • Milton in America

    When Peter Ackroyd, one of Britain's undisputed literary masters, writes a new novel, it is a literary event. With his last novel, The Trial of Elizabeth Cree, "as gripping and ingenious a murder mystery as you could hope to come across," in the word...

  • The Plato Papers

    From the imagination of one of the most brilliant writers of our time and bestselling author of The Life of Thomas More, a novel that playfully imagines how the "modern" era might appear to a thinker seventeen centuries hence.At the turn of the 38th ...

  • The Clerkenwell Tales

    From the foremost contemporary chronicler of London’s history, a suspenseful novel that ingeniously draws on Chaucer’s The Canterbury Tales to recreate the city’s 14th century religious and political intrigues. London, 1399. Sister Claric...

  • The Lambs of London

    Charles and Mary Lamb, who will in time achieve lasting fame as the authors of Tales from Shakespeare for children, are still living at home, caring for their dotty and maddening parents. Reading Shakespeare is the siblings' favorite reprieve, and th...

  • The Fall of Troy

    In The Fall of Troy, acclaimed novelist and historian Peter Ackroyd creates a fascinating narrative that follows an archaeologist's obsession with finding the ruins of Troy, depicting the blurred line between truth and deception.Obermann, an acclaime...

  • The Casebook of Victor Frankenstein

    From the incomparable Peter Ackroyd: a brilliant re-imagination of the classic tale that has enthralled readers for nearly two centuries. Victor Frankenstein, a researcher, and the poet Percy Bysshe Shelley form an unlikely friendship as first-year...

  • The Canterbury Tales: A Retelling

    A fresh, modern prose retelling captures the vigorous and bawdy spirit of Chaucer’s classic

    Renowned critic, historian, and biographer Peter Ackroyd takes on what is arguably the greatest poem in the English language and presents the work i...

  • Three Brothers

    Rapier-sharp, witty, intriguing, and mysterious: a new novel from Peter Ackroyd set in the London of the 1960s. Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Tow...

  • The Limehouse Golem

    ‘Mesmerising, macabre and totally brilliant’ Daily Mail

    Dan Leno, the great music hall comedian, was known in his lifetime as 'the funniest man on earth'. So how could he have been involved in one of the most curious episodes in London's hist...

  • Mr. Cadmus

    Two apparently harmless women reside in cottages one building apart in the idyllic English village of Little Camborne. Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a myste...



  • The Death of King Arthur: The Immortal Legend

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    Acclaimed biographer Peter Ackroyd vibrantly resurrects the legendary epic of Camelot in this modern adaptation. The names of Arthur, Merlin, Lancelot, Guinevere, Galahad, the sword of Excalibur, and the court of Camelot are as recognizable as any...

Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

Peter Ackroyd has published 20 books.

Peter Ackroyd does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, Mr. Cadmus, was published in October 2020.

The first book by Peter Ackroyd, The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, was published in June 1983.

No. Peter Ackroyd does not write books in series.
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