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Peter Ackroyd’s "Chatterton" Is vivid and a little gross, and intentionally evocative. The library isn’t just a repository of books, but a communal space shaped by all the lives that have passed through it.

If you fancy something bigger, darker, proggier, and downright unsettling compared to our latest releases, do check out “HAWKSMOOR”

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#postrock #industrial #prog #hawksmoor #occult #peterackroyd

Peter Ackroyd English historian and biographer Peter Ackroyd was BOTD in 1949. Born in London, he was educated at Cambridge University, undertaking postgraduate study at Yale University. He worked as an editor a…

English historian and biographer Peter Ackroyd, best known for his books “London: the Biography” and “Queer City”, was BOTD in 1949, turning 76 today. #peterackroyd #bornonthisday #supergays

"And when I was young, did I ever tell you, I always wanted to get inside
a book and never come out
again? I loved reading so much I wanted to be a part of it, and there were some books I could have stayed in for ever."

✒ #PeterAckroyd, great English author, is 76 today. #Literature #Biography

Not thrown out a #sundayshelfie or a #shelfiesunday or just a plain old #shelfie for a while.

About as far away from the usual #bluesky tagged pics of which 99% seem to be fantasy, romantasy etc, as I could get 📚📖📚
#books #reading #readingcommunity #History #MaxHastings #AntonyBeevor #PeterAckroyd

Such an amazing read from Peter Ackroyd. #peterackroyd

I’ve come to it 20 years too late but this is an absolute delightful book #PeterAckroyd

Jana Valová from Masaryk University, Brno, Czech Republic, writes about the neo-Victorian novels of Sarah Waters and Peter Ackroyd in her paper "Escaping the Women’s Sphere in Neo-Victorian Fiction" - pjes.edu.pl/wp-content/u... #neo-Victorianliterature #cross-dressing #SarahWaters #PeterAckroyd

It looks like I'm double dropping historiographic metafiction. Unwise perhaps, both books divide opinion, might be a headfuck. #AlanMoore #HPLovecraft #Hawksmoor #PeterAckroyd

#HiveMind question: are the #history #books by #PeterAckroyd with reading?

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[Minor spoilers.]
 
Progress in #DICKENS by #PeterAckroyd, pg 140. Last night, I would have gotten farther, not because it was boring, but because it was after 1 AM.
 
#CharlesDickens is now at least 18 years old.