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The
2005 Award
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The Clerkenwell Tales by Peter Ackroyd
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ABOUT
THE BOOK
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scene is London, in 1399. It is the last year of the fourteenth century,
and there is talk of an apocalypse. Richard II is on the throne, yet strange
signs and portents are troubling the latter part of his reign. By the side
of the River Fleet in Clerkenwell the people are restless, disenchanted
with the church and their King. The streets of London are rife with rumour,
heresy, espionage and murder and at the centre of the confusion is the nun,
Sister Clarice, who has been vouchsafed visions of the future. Is she a
genuine prophet, or the tool of earthly powers? There is a sect of predestined
men who believe that they must invoke the last judgement and the day of
doom, but there are also sinister forces opposed to them… This is a story of adventure and suspense set in the late medieval world. As in many of Peter Ackroyd's novels the distant past is no longer a foreign country but something alarmingly close and authentic.
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| ABOUT THE AUTHOR |
| Peter Ackroyd is the author of biographies of Dickens, Blake and Thomas More and of the bestselling London: The Biography. His most recent book is Albion: the Origins of the English Imagination. He is the author of many historical novels including The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde, Hawksmoor, which won the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize, Chatterton, and The Plato Papers. He lives in London and was awarded a CBE for services to literature in 2003. |
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