Thames: Sacred River (Paperback)

As rich and meandering and wonderful as its subject, this is one of the books of the year - Sunday Times

Mesmerising... No one is better than Ackroyd at evoking the texture and atmosphere of the distant past... Ackroyd's gift is to write history in the idiom of a poet. As soon as you open this account of the Thames, you will want to immerse yourself in it - Daily Telegraph

A beautifully produced book... There is so much to enjoy here - Gillian Tindall, Sunday Telegraph

Wonderful. He is comprehensive - everything from mammoths to the Dome is here - but he is also playful and eccentric, so that reading this book is like being in a boat on the river itself... Peter Ackroyd's writing is such a pleasure that Thames: Sacred River can be read all at once, with increasing delight, and afterwards dipped into, like stretches of the great waterway it charts and celebrates - Jeanette Winterson, Financial Times

A very enjoyable and highly idiosyncratic account of the subject - Spectator