Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers Thames: Sacred River and London: The Biography and The History of England series. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.
1. Malign spirits
2. The Thing
3. Eternity work
4. A queasy world
5. The door of change
6. False hope
7. The Inspector
8. Steam and speed
9. The pig is killed
10. Young hopefulness
11. City lights
12. Charitable government
13. The salamander
14. A most gorgeous sight
15. Blood lust
16. A dark world
17. Quite the fashion
18. The game cock
19. The unexpected revolution
20. She cannot go on
21. The Tichborne affair
22. The Angel
23. The Empress
24. This Depression
25. Frightful news
26. Daddy-Long-Legs
27. Lost illusions
28. The terrible childbed
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