The third brilliant short biography in Peter Ackroyd's Brief Lives. NEWTON is a companion volume to CHAUCER and TURNER
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.
A terrific piece of work ... this is a wonderfully writerly book,
never less than elegant in construction and execution
*Spectator*
Written in splendidly elastic prose, each sentence a springboard
for the next, it provides a concise, fair and highly readable
biography of a singular genius
*The Times*
Beautifully written and engaging
*BBC History*
Ackroyd has a fine eye for the intimate, thorny details that
breathe life into biographies
*Herald*
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