Author
Peter Ackroyd
1 award win, 1 nomination across 2 books.
Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic with a particular interest in the history and culture of London. For his novels about English history and culture and his biographies of, among others, William Blake, Charles Dickens, T. S. Eliot and Sir Thomas More, he won the Somerset Maugham Award and two Whitbread Awards. He is noted for the volume of work he has produced, the range of styles therein, his skill at assuming different voices and the depth of his research.
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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
185 pages
Lively and witty; absolutely believable description of last months of Oscar Wilde which sometimes makes you forget that Wilde himself never wrote it.
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