"There is no Light without Darknesse and no Substance without Shaddowe".

So proclaims Nicholas Dyer, assistant to Sir Christopher Wren and man with a commission to build seven London churches to stand as beacons of the enlightenment. But Dyer plans to conceal a dark secret at the heart of each church - to create a forbidding architecture that will survive for eternity. Two hundred and fifty years later, London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sites of certain eighteenth-century churches - crimes that make no sense to the modern mind ...

Peter Ackroyd was born in London in 1949. A novelist, biographer and historian, he has been the literary editor of the Spectator and chief book reviewer for the Тле Times, as well as writing several highly acclaimed books including a biography of Charles Dickens and London: The Biography. He lives in London.

Barn grew up in sun-bleached Leek, Staffordshire, where he played with Lego, read comics and enjoyed anything to do with space (he continues to like anything glow in the dark). In his teens he chased the bright city lights and drew on things he wasn"t supposed to. Today Barn is busy making his fantastical and eclectic illustrations in London, where he lives. Это и многое другое вы найдете в книге Hawksmoor (Peter Ackroyd)