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Peter Ackroyd
Isaac Newton (1642-1727), the English genius, made his greatest contributions to original thought before the age of twenty-five. He was the professor of mathematics at Cambridge, an MP, master of…
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This is Ackroyd’s retelling of a 19th century drama which keeps the reader guessing right to the end.
Sophia Chrysanthis is 16 when the archaeologist Herr Obermann comes wooing: he wants a Greek bride who knows her Homer. Sophia passes his test, and soon she is removing the…
Offers a biography of Shakespeare, this book reads like the work of a contemporary meeting Shakespeare. It is a depiction of the world Shakespeare inhabited.
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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.
