The House of Doctor Dee

Product Description By the author of "English Music" and "Hawksmoor", this is a novel about sorcery and the possibilities of human redemption. It is concerned with the prospect of an eternal city. It is about the secrets of love and power, in a world where there can be no distinction between the past and the present. About the Author Novelist, biographer and poet Peter Ackroyd was born in London on 5 October 1949. He won the duplex Whitbread Novel prize and Guardian Fiction Prize for his novel Hawksmoor in 1988. This Novel Centres On The Famous 16th-century Alchemist And Astrologer John Dee. Reputedly A Black Magician, He Was Imprisoned By Queen Mary For Allegedly Attempting To Kill Her Through Sorcery. When Matthew Palmer Inherits An Old House In Clerkenwell, He Feels That He Has Become Part Of Its Past. Peter Ackroyd. Dels en romanbiografi om doktor Dee (1527-1608), som var alkymist, magiker, forfatter og meget mere, og dels en beretning fra nutidens London om forskeren Matthew Palmer, som arver et nærmest forhekset hus med tilknytning til doktoree