Peter Ackroyd at his most magical and magisterial---a glittering, evocative, fascinating, story-filled portrait of Venice, the ultimate city.

Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century, when Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Christopher Wren, builds seven London churches that house a terrible secret, and the 1980s, when Londo...