Harriett Gilbert talks to acclaimed novelist, biographer and critic Peter Ackroyd about his haunting ... architect of the English Baroque, Nicholas Hawksmoor, a central and sinister figure in ...

‘There’s a writer in England called … er, Peter Ackroyd,’ David Bowie said in a short film ... The novel's protagonist, Nick Dyer, partly based on the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor, is a follower of a ...

Peter Ackroyd is a connoisseur of the city’s dark history and labyrinths of crime. His third novel, Hawksmoor (1985), imagined that churches built in the 18th century by Nicholas Hawksmoor ...

The most extraordinary thing about Wilkie Collins, the latest addition to Peter Ackroyd’s series of Brief ... is a ventriloquist’s apologia pro vita sua. Hawksmoor (1985) finds Baroque architect ...

Take a guided tour of the London churches of Nicholas Hawksmoor on Tuesday ... P.S. We recommend you read Peter Ackroyd's novel Hawksmoor before you go, if you haven't already.

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or ...