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Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which Read More..

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Description	Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches.The edition used for reference in this article is: Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor. With an Introduction by Will Self. Penguin Decades 80s, London 2010 ISBN 978-0141042015 Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel up to now and an example of postmodernism.
Description	Hawksmoor is a 1985 novel by the English writer Peter Ackroyd. It won Best Novel at the 1985 Whitbread Awards and the Guardian Fiction Prize. It tells the parallel stories of Nicholas Dyer, who builds seven churches in 18th-century London for which he needs human sacrifices, and Nicholas Hawksmoor, detective in the 1980s, who investigates murders committed in the same churches.The edition used for reference in this article is: Peter Ackroyd: Hawksmoor. With an Introduction by Will Self. Penguin Decades 80s, London 2010 ISBN 978-0141042015 Hawksmoor has been praised as Peter Ackroyd's best novel up to now and an example of postmodernism.

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Name	Hawksmoor
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Authors	Peter Ackroyd
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Language	English
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Country	United Kingdom
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Media_type	Print (Hardback & Paperback)
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Isbn	978-0-241-11664-7
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Oclc	12500258
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Publisher	Hamish Hamilton
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