17th April 2007
Peter Ackroyd moves to Macmillan for six major non-fiction titles
Macmillan has signed Peter Ackroyd in a deal for worldwide rights in six major non-fiction titles. The deal was negotiated by Sonia Land at Sheil Land representing Peter Ackroyd. The first book is likely to be delivered in 2011.
Richard Charkin commented: "We are all huge admirers of what Peter Ackroyd has achieved and his remarkable plans for the future.
Having the opportunity to be Peter’s publisher will be a privilege and an honour and all of us at Macmillan are very much looking
forward to publishing Peter’s works to ever more success."
Peter Ackroyd commented: "This will be for me a profoundly important project, no less than the biography of England in six volumes.
I thank Macmillan for their trust and support and look forward to working with them."
Notes for editors:
Peter Ackroyd lives in London, and is the author of the ground-breaking London: The Biography as well as major biographies of T.S.
Eliot, Dickens, Blake, Thomas More and, most recently, Shakespeare. He has written and presented several TV series for the BBC
including Dickens (2002), London (2004) and The Romantic Poets (2006) and written thirteen novels among them Hawksmoor, Chatterton,
The Lambs of London and The Fall of Troy. His play, The Mystery of Charles Dickens, ran both in the West End and on Broadway. He is the
winner of the Somerset Maugham Award, The Guardian Fiction Prize, The Whitbread Biography Award, The Royal Society of Literature,
William Heinemann Award and the James Tait Black Memorial Prize. He is an honorary fellow of Clare College, Cambridge, and holds several
honorary doctorates from British universities. He is also fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and of the American Academy of Arts
and Sciences. He holds a CBE for services to literature.
For further information, please contact Jacqueline Graham on 020 7014 6181 or j.graham@macmillan.co.uk
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