Thames- Sacred River displays the same qualities as London- the biography- scholarship, wit, discursiveness, lovely descriptive writing, anecdotes, spirit of place, narrative and character. This hugely enjoyable book is packed with fascinating facts and insights- it will be another mammoth bestseller.
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
As rich and meandering and wonderful as its subject, this is one of
the books of the year
*Sunday Times*
Mesmerising... No one is better than Ackroyd at evoking the texture
and atmosphere of the distant past... Ackroyd's gift is to write
history in the idiom of a poet. As soon as you open this account of
the Thames, you will want to immerse yourself in it
*Daily Telegraph*
A beautifully produced book... There is so much to enjoy here
*Sunday Telegraph*
Wonderful. He is comprehensive - everything from mammoths to the
Dome is here - but he is also playful and eccentric, so that
reading this book is like being in a boat on the river itself...
Peter Ackroyd's writing is such a pleasure that Thames: Sacred
River can be read all at once, with increasing delight, and
afterwards dipped into, like stretches of the great waterway it
charts and celebrates
*Financial Times*
A very enjoyable and highly idiosyncratic account of the
subject
*Spectator*
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