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Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize.
23 de sept. de 1985 · The novel’s main protagonist, Nick Dyer, ( partly based on the architect Nicholas Hawksmoor who worked alongside Sir Christopher Wren), is a follower of a Satanic cult who consecrates his churches with human sacrifices.
25 de may. de 2010 · His present-day alter ego, a Scotland Yard detective significantly named Nicholas Hawksmoor, is investigating a series of murders which have occurred on the sites of certain...
Written by Micola Magdalena, Will Lower. The novel is divided into two different stories, one story taking place in the past, in the 18th century and the other in the present. The chapters are mixed but the first chapter is set in the 18th century and focuses on a man named Nicholas Dyer.
3 de mar. de 2015 · In the 1980s, detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders that took place in the sites of those same seven churches. Hawksmoor alternates between the two time periods and Ackroyd uses different styles to reflect “modern” day language and 18th century language.
18 de feb. de 2024 · Tim Adams. The prodigious output of the great biographer and novelist, now 74, shows no sign of slowing. With distractions such as booze long abandoned, the ‘monkish’ figure has now produced a...
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 . . .
