Peter Ackroyd

"Three Brothers follows the fortunes of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, a trio of brothers born on a postwar council estate in Camden Town. Marked from the start by curious coincidence, each boy is forced to make his own way in the world--a world of dodgy deals and big business, of criminal gangs and crooked landlords, of newspaper magnates, backbiters, and petty thieves. London is the backdrop and the connecting fabric of these three lives, reinforcing...

Profiles the eventful life of master fourteenth-century English poet Geoffrey Chaucer, recounting his life as a courtier, diplomat, and literary luminary, who was also indicted for rape, sued for debt, and captured in battle.

An unlikely friendship between a pair of nineteenth-century Oxford students, researcher Victor Frankenstein and poet Percy Bysshe Shelly, is marked by disparate religious beliefs that lead to Victor's grisly experimentations with corpses.

An in-depth tour of the art, architecture, music and theatre of Venice, Europe's most mysterious and seductive city.