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 ...

On paper, it seemed shrewd for the Royal Academy to mark the 350th anniversary of Nicholas Hawksmoor ... notably in the East End noir of Peter Ackroyd’s Hawksmoor. But it is the buildings ...

Nicholas Hawksmoor’s brooding Baroque churches ... Finally, the fictional speculations of Peter Ackroyd and psycho-geography of Iain Sinclair delivered Hawksmoor, somewhat mangled, back to ...