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In the aftermath of the great fire, eighteenth-century London is a city of extremes. Squalor and superstition vie with elegance and reason as brilliant architect, Nicholas Dyer, is commissioned to build seven new churches. They are to stand as beacons of the Enlightenment – but Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each one.
Two hundred and fifty years later, in the same vast metropolis, a series of murders occur on the sites of those same churches. Detective Nicholas Hawksmoor investigates, but the gruesome crimes make no sense to the modern mind...
Combining thriller, ghost story and metaphysical tract, Hawksmoor won the Whitbread Book Award and Guardian Fiction Prize in 1985.
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Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed (Independent on Sunday)
Extraordinary, amazing, vivid, convincing. [Ackroyd's] view of life questions the role not just of the novel but of art and history, memory, time and much else (Financial Times)
A novel remarkable for [its] power, ingenuity and subtlety (London Review of Books)
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With a new introduction by Will Self
Winner of the Whitbread Book Award and Guardian Fiction Prize in 1985
'There 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
'Grips the imagination like an obsession' Guardian
'Extraordinary, amazing, vivid, convincing. Ackroyd's view of life questions the role not just of the novel but of art and history, memory, time and much else.' Financial Times
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- PublisherPenguin
- Publication date1993
- ISBN 10 0140171134
- ISBN 13 9780140171136
- BindingPaperback
- Edition number1
- Number of pages224
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