Peter Ackroyd — Hawksmoor

London, Hamish Hamilton , 1985. First edition. Cloth. A very smart copy of Peter Ackroyd's extraordinary novel Hawksmoor, in the original unclipped dust wrapper. A first UK edition of Hawksmoor, published in 1985. Hawksmoor won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. Hawksmoor tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, a detective in the 1980s who investigates the murders committed in the same churches. Peter Ackroyd is an English biographer, novelist and critic who is especially interested in the history and culture of London. In the original unclipped dust wrapper. In the publisher's original cloth binding. Externally, very smart with a few light marks to the boards and some light bumping to the head and tail of the spine. Internally, firmly bound with bright and clean pages. In the original unclipped dust wrapper which is very smart. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Fine.