In 1982 he published The Great Fire of London, his first novel. He later moved into fiction and has become an acclaimed author, winning the 1998 James Tait Black Memorial Prize for the biography Thomas More and being shortlisted for the Booker Prize in 1987.Īckroyd worked at The Spectator magazine between 19 and became joint managing editor in 1978.
Eliot's Notes Towards the Definition of Culture (1948), was an early indication of Ackroyd's penchant for creatively exploring and reexamining the works of other London-based writers.Īckroyd's literary career began with poetry, including such works as London Lickpenny (1973) and The Diversions of Purley (1987). The result of this fellowship was Ackroyd's Notes for a New Culture, written when he was only 22 and eventually published in 1976. In 1972, he was a Mellon Fellow at Yale University in the United States. Benedict's, Ealing and at Clare College, Cambridge, from which he graduated with a double first in English. Reputedly, he first realized he was gay at the age of 7.Īckroyd was educated at St. He was reading newspapers by the age of 5 and, at 9, wrote a play about Guy Fawkes. Peter Ackroyd's mother worked in the personnel department of an engineering firm, his father having left the family home when Ackroyd was a baby. 'This is a book powered along with ferocious momentum by the raw nervous energy of its characters, whose demotic, alternating narratives seem to muscle bodily off the page.Peter Ackroyd CBE is an English novelist and biographer with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. 'Griffiths has forged a chimerical piece of radical fiction, a Blake-like reverie on the possibility (or not) of spiritual regeneration in our time.' Guardian 'Combines myth, drug culture and iconoclastic political vision in a wild music that's also a call to arms' New Statesman, Books of the Year Broken Ghost is a howl of anguish and a summoning of gods. Disturbing and unforgettable, darkly funny and deeply moving, it is written in a charged language that is vernacular, lyrical and hieratic all at once. An examination of modern humanity's desperate need to live meaningfully and vividly in a mediated world - where individual autonomy is lost and the collective heart is atomised and exploited. This is a novel that gives voices to the marginalised, the dispossessed, the forgotten. Is it a collective hallucination, a meteorological phenomenon, or something supernatural? The individuals living in these mountains are already battling their own demons - of drink, drugs, domestic violence, depression - how could an apparition unite these crushed people or their fragmented country? 'A magnificently gifted writer' Irvine WelshĪ Welsh community witnesses a strange vision: the huge spectre of a woman floating over a ridge. Click here to purchase from Rakuten Kobo **WINNER OF THE 2020 WALES BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARD**
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