{"product_id":"9780141042015","title":"Hawksmoor - Peter Ackroyd (Paperback) 01-04-2010 Winner of Whitbread Novel Award.","description":"\u003cp\u003eThere is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe' So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . 'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' Independent on Sunday Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of The Spectator and chief book reviewer for the The Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","offers":[{"title":"Peter Ackroyd \/ Fiction - Paperback \/ 01-04-2010","offer_id":54920029897084,"sku":"9780141042015","price":10.99,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0535\/2344\/8005\/files\/9780141042015.jpg?v=1738599622","url":"https:\/\/www.ivybridgebookshop.com\/products\/9780141042015","provider":"The Ivybridge Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}