The Lambs Of London by Peter Ackroyd
Mary Lamb is confined by the restrictions of domesticity: her father is losing his mind, her mother watchful and hostile.-
London
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Tudors
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London Under
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Thames: Sacred River
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Hawksmoor
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Foundation
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Civil War
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Shakespeare
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Queer City
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Venice
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Revolution
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Blake
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Thames
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The English Ghost
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Dominion
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Dan Leno and the Limehouse Golem
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Albion
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Dickens
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Forgotten London
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Innovation
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The Death of King Arthur
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Tudors: The History of England Volume II
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Alfred Hitchcock
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The House of Doctor Dee
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Chaucer
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Life Of Thomas More
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Turner
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Clerkenwell Tales
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Wilkie Collins
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Mr Cadmus
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Colours of London
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Illustrated London
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The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde
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The English Soul
As always, Ackroyd brings the bustle, stench and hazards of nineteenth-century London vividly to life and keeps readers on their toes until the final page * Daily Mail *
A marvellously adroit tale -- Penelope Lively * Independent *
Energetic and clever.. The Lambs of London ingeniously combines two fact-based narratives and transforms them into a detective-cum-love story * Daily Telegraph *
Historically animated and emotionally fervent. Ackroyd turns the past into a private phantasmagoria of loving fakes and pungent terrors * Observer *
Clever, subtle and touching, often funny and always highly intelligent. A modern novel that requires a second reading - one which will be even more enjoyable and rewarding than the first * Scotsman *
A marvellously adroit tale -- Penelope Lively * Independent *
Energetic and clever.. The Lambs of London ingeniously combines two fact-based narratives and transforms them into a detective-cum-love story * Daily Telegraph *
Historically animated and emotionally fervent. Ackroyd turns the past into a private phantasmagoria of loving fakes and pungent terrors * Observer *
Clever, subtle and touching, often funny and always highly intelligent. A modern novel that requires a second reading - one which will be even more enjoyable and rewarding than the first * Scotsman *
Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780099472094 |
| ISBN 10 | 0099472090 |
| Title | The Lambs Of London |
| Author | Peter Ackroyd |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Vintage Publishing |
| Year published | 2005-08-04 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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