FRANKFURT 2004 REFERENCE NUMBER: 130080
Peter Ackroyd
THE LAMBS OF LONDON "A delicious entertainment" Sunday Telegraph Brother and sister Charles and Mary Lamb become acquainted with self-educated bookseller's son, William Henry Ireland. Mary shares William's love of Shakespeare, and, he, thanks to a mysterious patron, happens upon previously unseen works by the Bard. But are they real works, or forged, and, if so, by whom As suspicion grows, Mary's mental state deteriorates. A gripping story of art imitating art, The Lambs of London brilliantly recreates an urban world of scholars and entrepreneurs, actors and theatre managers, a world of betrayal and deceit. Ingenious. Material: Finished copies Sales: Chatto UK; Editions Philippe Rey France; Meulenhoff NL; Knaus Verlag Germany; Neri Pozza Italy & PETER ACKROYD'S BRIEF LIVES: CHAUCER Chaucer – courtier, diplomat, judge, poet, debtor, suspected rapist, author of the first novel in modern English. This is the first in a series of ten short biographies, which will be supported by a massive publicity campaign. Forthcoming: JMW TURNER (2005); NEWTON. Material: Finished copies Sales: Chatto UK; Editions Philippe Rey France & THE CLERKENWELL TALES "Tremendous" Independent on Sunday Set in London in 1399, The Clerkenwell Tales depicts a world where people's preoccupations are not that dissimilar from our own, positing a popular cult around the 'mad' nun, Sister Clarice, whose visions of earthly doom capture the public imagination. Meanwhile, a group of religious terrorists plan five acts of violence to occur at five key sites in London. And within this group, there is a second, secret group with another agenda still – to dethrone King Richard II, and crown his cousin Henry Bolingbroke in his place. But what does Sister Clarice know of all this And what does it have to do with the murder of a merchant, or the sadomasochistic rituals in Latin between a canon and his yeoman And how are any of these characters connected to the religious reformists in Avignon, who have appointed a rival pope The Clerkenwell Tales is a medieval thriller par excellence. Material: Finished copies Sales: Chatto UK, Nan Talese USA, Philippe Rey France, Edhasa Spain, Meulenhoff Holland, Knaus Verlag Germany, Zysk Poland; Livanis Greece; Teorema Portugal; Alkim Turkey. Peter Ackroyd is also published by: Stock France, Frassinelli Italy, Teorema Portugal, BB Art Czech, Inostranka & Nezarisimaya Gazeta Russia, Polirom Romania, Chajak Korea, Alma Lithuania. Also by Peter Ackroyd: ALBION: THE ORIGINS OF THE ENGLISH IMAGINATION "His masterpiece" The Herald Material: UK paperback edition LONDON: THE BIOGRAPHY

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