{"product_id":"hawksmoor","title":"Hawksmoor","description":"\u003cp\u003e'There is no Light without Darknesse \u003cbr\u003eand no Substance without Shaddowe'\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSo proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and the man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind . . . \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e'Chillingly brilliant . . . sinister and stunningly well executed' \u003ci\u003eIndependent on Sunday\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePeter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of \u003ci\u003eThe Spectator\u003c\/i\u003e and chief book reviewer for the \u003ci\u003eThe Times,\u003c\/i\u003e as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Dickens and \u003ci\u003eLondon: The Biography\u003c\/i\u003e. He lives in London.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv class=\"sb-details\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat:\u003c\/strong\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublished:\u003c\/strong\u003e 2010\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/strong\u003e National Geographic Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN:\u003c\/strong\u003e 9780141042015\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Ackroyd, Peter","offers":[{"title":"Poor Condition — £1.17","offer_id":47977583345841,"sku":"SB-014104201X-C4","price":1.17,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0618\/2669\/5345\/files\/014104201X.jpg?v=1790373959","url":"https:\/\/sellbooks.co.uk\/products\/hawksmoor","provider":"Sell Books .co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}