Milton in America

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'Ackroyd has come up with an almost seamless work, one which earns its place on the same shelf as the best of his literary fantasies' - Guardian What if John Milton, Cromwell's secretary, anticipating the King's return to London, had decided to flee England in order to avoid imprisonment or death What if he had crossed the ocean and joined the Puritans recently settled in New England From this idea Peter Ackroyd creates an enthralling story of conflict, treachery, hypocrisy and greed.

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More concise and sardonic than Hawksmoor and Chatterton, and even more mysteriously brilliant, Milton in America fills the reader's mind with images of extraordinary vividness -- John Bayley * The Times *
A strikingly clever premise for a novel... Ackroyd's prose fizzes and sparkles as brightly as an electrical misconnection -- Lucy Hughes-Hallett * Independent *
Consistently funny. Ackroyd's comic genius... is allowed to let rip, with wonderfully enjoyable gusto -- A.N.Wilson * Literary Review *
A startlingly good novel... authentically tragic and unforgettable -- Victoria Glendinning * Daily Telegraph *

Author Bio

Peter Ackroyd is an award-winning historian, biographer, novelist, poet and broadcaster. He is the author of the acclaimed non-fiction bestsellers London: The Biography, Thames: Sacred River and London Under; biographies of figures including Charles Dickens, William Blake, Charlie Chaplin and Alfred Hitchcock; and a multi-volume history of England. He has won the Whitbread Biography Award, the Royal Society of Literature's William Heinemann Award, the James Tait Black Memorial Prize, the Guardian Fiction Prize, the Somerset Maugham Award and the South Bank Prize for Literature. He holds a CBE for services to literature.