*Ackroyd, Peter: - PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet, and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed London: The Biography *, and the History of England series. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.

*Ackroyd, Peter: - PETER ACKROYD is an award-winning novelist, as well as a broadcaster, biographer, poet, and historian. He is the author of the acclaimed London: The Biography *, and the History of England series. He holds a CBE for services to literature and lives in London.