A brilliant historical novel, set during the 19th century at the time that the Bronze Age site of Troy was being excavated, with Peter Ackroyd returning to one of his favourite themes- fakes, forgeries and plagiarism.
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.
Provoking, unsettling, ingenious - and a delight to read * Guardian
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Erudite and witty... The Fall of Troy skilfully interweaves
classical and 19th century stories, employing motifs from both
Homer and Charlotte Bronte. This is Ackroyd's most exuberant novel
for years -- Michael Arditti * Daily Mail *
Ackroyd imports a Mrs Rochester theme to Turkey, and the denouement
has the atmosphere of a thriller, with innocents running for their
lives -- David Horspool * Sunday Times *
Lurid and generally entertaining drama -- Sue Gaisford *
Independent on Sunday *
The Fall of Troy is above all a love story, and like the
best love stories it deals in obsession, deception, madness and
death -- Elizabeth Speller * Independent *
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