As a Londoner I was able to see how the world of power and money cast its shadow on those who failed.
Peter AckroydLondon has always provided the landscape for my imagination. It becomes a character - a living being - within each of my books.
Peter AckroydLondon' is a gallery of sensation of impressions. It is a history of London in a thematic rather than a chronological sense with chapters of the history of smells, the history of silence, and the history of light. I have described the book as a labyrinth, and in that sense in complements my description of London itself.
Peter Ackroyd