Peter Ackroyd

Colours of London

A History. 150 colour photos. Sprache: Englisch.
gebunden , 256 Seiten
ISBN 0711269424
EAN 9780711269422
Veröffentlicht Oktober 2022
Verlag/Hersteller Quarto
32,00 inkl. MwSt.
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Beschreibung

Peter Ackroyd tells the history of London through the lens of colour - with specially commissioned colourised photographs from Dynamichrome that bring a lost London back to life. 

Portrait

London has been the main character in the work of Peter Ackroyd ever since his first novel, The Great Fire of London. His Hawksmoor won the Whitbread and the Guardian Fiction Prize, Chatterton was shortlisted for the Booker, London: the Biography won the South Bank Show Annual Award for Literature. Reviewers commonly categorize him as the Dickens of our day.