Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR Part One

The Curiously Specific Book Club

After NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman, we’re back with another book that manifests London in mysterious and unsettling ways. Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR tells the tale of Nicholas Dyer, a fictional architect of the early 18th century who has been charged with building seven new churches but has his own sinister, not to say Satanic purposes. In Part One we begin at Scotland Yard in Whitehall, scene of Nicholas Dyer’s studio and the original home of the Metropolitan Police. From there we take in three of the real Nicholas Hawksmoor’s churches, while discussing the lives of Peter Ackroyd and Hawksmoor, as well as the quite extraordinarily bleak year of the book’s publication, 1985.

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