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Colours of London - A History by Peter Ackroyd
59.99 AUD
Category: Photography
In Colours of London Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colorised photographs from Dynamichrome that bring a lost London back to life.
Dominion - A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
32.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The History of England | Reading Level: very good
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
Dominion: A History of England Volume V by Peter Ackroyd
24.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from t ...Show more
Foundation - The History of England: Volume I by Peter Ackroyd
22.99 AUD
Category: Popular History | Series: The\History of England Ser. | Reading Level: 16
The first volume in a new six-part history of England from acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd. Having written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself. This first volume of six takes us from the time that England was first settled, more ...Show more
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
26.99 AUD
Category: History | Series: The\History of England Ser.
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, IndependentInnovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaught ...Show more
Innovation: The History of England Volume VI by Peter Ackroyd
36.99 AUD
Category: Popular History | Series: The History of England
'Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaug ...Show more
London by Peter Ackroyd (Editor); Thomas Wright (Editor)
22.99 AUD
Category: Travel Literature | Series: A\Traveller's Companion Ser.
Loved and hated in equal measure, London was for centuries the world's greatest city. Its streets, teeming with history, have always worn a variety of influences, reflecting the diverse crowds who have walked them. Its citizens have witnessed everything from pilgrimages, celebrations, acts of heroism an ...Show more
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
45.00 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
Much of Peter Ackroyd's work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city. For him it is an organism with its own laws of growth and change, so this book is a biography rather than a history. Ackroyd reveals the dozens of ways in w ...Show more
London - The Biography by Peter Ackroyd
32.95 AUD
Category: History | Reading Level: very good
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London: The Concise Biography by Peter Ackroyd
19.99 AUD
24.99 (20% off)
Category: Popular History
"An abridged edition of Peter Ackroyd s magisterial biography of the city of London Prize-winning historian, novelist and broadcast, Peter Ackroyd takes us on a journey historical, geographical and imaginative through the city of London. Moving back and forth through time, Ackroyd is an effortless, exub ...Show more
London Under by Peter Ackroyd
19.95 AUD
Category: Popular History
Secondhand. "London Under" is an atmospheric, imaginative introduction to everything that goes on under London, from original springs and streams and Roman amphitheatres to Victorian sewers, gang hideouts and modern Underground stations. This book tunnels down through the geological layers, meeting the ...Show more
Mr Cadmus by Peter Ackroyd
24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Miss Finch and Miss Swallow, cousins, have put their pasts behind them and settled into conventional country life. But when a mysterious foreigner, Theodore Cadmus - from Caldera, a Mediterranean island nobody has heard of - moves into the middle cottage, the safe monotony of their lives is shattered. ...Show more