Tag Archives: Peter-Ackroyd
Nor shall my sword sleep at my side (just a day late)
It didn’t occur to me until today, the morning after William Blake’s 250th anniversary, to post, by way of celebration, Mark Stewart’s version of Jerusalem* with the Maffia, now 25-years-old itself, and sounding, if anything, more contemporary than it did … more…
Dan Leno & The Limehouse Golem
I think this might be the first Ackroyd fiction I’ve looked at since Hawksmoor, and that was… eek, twenty years ago. It’s a strange book: a murder mystery set in London of the 1880s and shot through with numerous more-or-less … more…
Ackroyd: Disappearances can be deceptive
Peter Ackroyd, on the pretext of reviewing Iain Sinclair’s anthology London: City of Disappearances, stories of vanishings in London — strikingly, he barely mentions the book, and offers no opinion at all as to its quality — expatiates nevertheless on … more…