{"title":"Peter Ackroyd","description":"\u003cp\u003eFind your next read from \u003cstrong\u003ePeter Ackroyd\u003c\/strong\u003e. Reader favourites include \u003cem\u003eInnovation The History of England Volume VI\u003c\/em\u003e, \u003cem\u003eHistory Of England Vol 1\u003c\/em\u003e and \u003cem\u003eRevolution: the History of England Volume 4\u003c\/em\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eBest for adult readers. Browse every Peter Ackroyd book we stock below, with delivery across South Africa.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"9780230706392","title":"History Of England Vol 1","description":"\u003cp\u003eHaving written enthralling biographies of London and of its great river, the Thames, acclaimed author Peter Ackroyd now turns to England itself in a landmark six-part history. Ackroyd is a cornerstone of Britain’s literary landscape, with acclaimed novels, retellings of Chaucer and Mallory and other major works of non-fiction.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eThis series, beginning with Stonehenge and ending with the twentieth century, is something he’s been waiting to write all his life. It is history with the emphasis on story, a real pleasure to read, full of riveting details. A renowned author’s most ambitious project in a long and successful career that has been anything but unambitious.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Topline","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":29558540664947,"sku":"9780230706392","price":99.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/history-of-england-vol-19780230706392-440039.jpg?v=1771260276"},{"product_id":"9781509881321","title":"Dominion: the History of England Volume 5","description":"The penultimate volume of Peter Ackroyd's masterful History of England series, Dominion begins in 1815 as national glory following the Battle of Waterloo gives way to post-war depression, spanning the last years of the Regency to the death of Queen Victoria in January 1901.In it, Ackroyd takes us from the accession of the profligate George IV whose government was steered by Lord Liverpool, who was firmly set against reform, to the reign of his brother, William IV, the 'Sailor King', whose reign saw the modernization of the political system and the abolition of slavery. But it was the accession of Queen Victoria, aged only eighteen, that sparked an era of enormous innovation. Technological progress - from steam railways to the first telegram - swept the nation and the finest inventions were showcased at the first Great Exhibition in 1851. The emergence of the middle classes changed the shape of society and scientific advances changed the old pieties of the Church of England, and spread secular ideas across the nation. But though intense industrialization brought boom times for the factory owners, the working classes were still subjected to poor housing, long working hours and dire poverty.It was a time that saw a flowering of great literature, too. As the Georgian era gave way to that of Victoria, readers could delight not only in the work of Byron, Shelley and Wordsworth but also the great nineteenth-century novelists: the Brontë sisters, George Eliot, Mrs Gaskell, Thackeray, and, of course, Dickens, whose work has become synonymous with Victorian England.Nor was Victorian expansionism confined to Britain alone. By the end of Victoria's reign, the Queen was also an Empress and the British Empire dominated much of the globe. And, as Ackroyd shows in this richly populated, vividly told account, Britannia really did seem to rule the waves.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":31979018748019,"sku":"9781509881321","price":342.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/products\/dominion9781509881321-447804.jpg?v=1709118118"},{"product_id":"9781509811472","title":"Revolution: the History of England Volume 4","description":"A sweeping and enthralling journey through the birth of modern Britain, from the Glorious Revolution to the defeat of Napoleon.\n \n Revolution, the fourth volume of Peter Ackroyd's captivating History of England, begins in 1688 with a revolution and ends in 1815 with a famous victory. Ackroyd guides readers from William of Orange's accession following the Glorious Revolution to the Regency, when the flamboyant Prince of Wales ruled in the stead of his mad father, George III, and England was once again at war with France - a war that would culminate in the defeat of Napoleon at Waterloo.\n \n Late Stuart and Georgian England saw the creation of the great pillars of the English state. The Bank of England was founded, as was the stock exchange; the Church of England was fully established as the guardian of the nation's spiritual life; and parliament became the sovereign body of the nation with responsibilities and duties far beyond those of the monarch. It was a revolutionary era in English letters, too, a time in which newspapers first flourished and the English novel was born. Coffee houses and playhouses boomed, gin flowed freely, and shops, as we know them today, began to proliferate in towns and villages across the country. But it was also a time of extraordinary and unprecedented technological innovation, which saw England utterly transformed from a land of blue skies and farmland to one of soot, steel, and coal.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":39392787529843,"sku":"9781509811472","price":342.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/revolution.jpg?v=1683637252"},{"product_id":"9781509896738","title":"Innovation The History of England Volume VI","description":"Ackroyd makes history accessible to the layman' - Ian Thomson, Independent\n \n Innovation brings Peter Ackroyd's History of England to a triumphant close. In it, Ackroyd takes readers from the end of the Boer War and the accession of Edward VII to the end of the twentieth century, when his great-granddaughter Elizabeth II had been on the throne for almost five decades.\n \n A century of enormous change, encompassing two world wars, four monarchs (Edward VII, George V, George VI and the Queen), the decline of the aristocracy and the rise of the Labour Party, women's suffrage, the birth of the NHS, the march of suburbia and the clearance of the slums. It was a period that saw the work of the Bloomsbury Group and T. S. Eliot, of Kingsley Amis and Philip Larkin, of the end of the post-war slump to the technicolour explosion of the 1960s, to free love and punk rock and from Thatcher to Blair.\n \n A vividly readable, richly peopled tour de force, it is Peter Ackroyd writing at his considerable best.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":40808542929011,"sku":"9781509896738","price":379.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/innovation.jpg?v=1683194104"},{"product_id":"9781836390947","title":"The English Soul Faith of a Nation","description":"From celebrated historian and writer Peter Ackroyd, a magisterial portrayal of English Christianity over the centuries.\n \n This book portrays the spirit and nature of English Christianity, as it has developed over the last fourteen hundred years. During this time, Christianity has been the predominant faith of the people and the reflection of the English soul. This fascinating new history is an account of the Christian English soul, which recognizes the fact that Christianity has been the anchoring and defining doctrine of England while accepting respectfully that other powerful and significant faiths have influenced the religious sensibility of this nation. Peter Ackroyd surveys the lives and faith of the most important figures of English Christianity from the Venerable Bede to C. S. Lewis, exploring the mysticism of Julian of Norwich and William Blake; the tumultuous years of the Reformation; the emergence of the English bible; the evangelical tradition, including John Wesley; and the contemporary contest between tradition, revival, and atheism. This is an essential, comprehensive, and accessible survey of English Christianity.","brand":"BOOKSITE","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45359078604915,"sku":"9781836390947","price":357.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/2291\/7991\/files\/22980083482841.jpg?v=1788971737"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.readerswarehouse.shop\/collections\/peter-ackroyd-books.oembed","provider":"Readers Warehouse","version":"1.0","type":"link"}