Peter Ackroyd’s newest book considers the impact Chris­­­t­ian­ity has had on the character of English culture—and vice-versa. Ackroyd is a revered novelist, critic, biographer, and historian whose ...
In the second volume of his Brief Lives series, which commenced with a biography of Chaucer, Ackroyd presents another major cultural figure, the English painter Joseph Mallord William Turner ...