{"product_id":"hawksmoor-p-b-w3","title":"Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor [2010] paperback","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003e'There is no Light without Darknesse \u003cbr\u003eand no Substance without Shaddowe'\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo 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 . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed'  \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e and chief book reviewer for the \u003ci\u003eThe Times,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Ackroyd, Peter","offers":[{"title":"New","offer_id":44215976296738,"sku":"9780141042015","price":10.8,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Good","offer_id":47018341597523,"sku":"XG80141042015","price":4.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":false},{"title":"Very Good","offer_id":50955567825235,"sku":"XV80141042015","price":5.99,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0616\/4001\/6057\/files\/ackroyd-peter-peter-ackroyd-hawksmoor-2010-paperback-58414268580179.jpg?v=1746876895","url":"https:\/\/theirishbookshop.live\/products\/hawksmoor-p-b-w3","provider":"Chapters Bookstore","version":"1.0","type":"link"}