Much of Peter Ackroyd\'s work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city.
Ackroyd portrays London from the time of the Druids to the beginning of the twenty-first century, noting magnificence in both epochs, but this is.
It differs from other histories, too, in the range and diversity of its contents.
For him it is a living organism, with its own laws of growth and change, so London is a biography rather than a history.
Much of Peter Ackroyd\'s work has been concerned with the life and past of London but here, as a culmination, is his definitive account of the city