

The Lambs of London
A Novel
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Narrator: John Keating
Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/13/2023
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Author: Peter Ackroyd
Narrator: John Keating
Unabridged: 6 hr 48 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
Published: 06/13/2023
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction
Peter Ackroyd is a master of the historical novel: The Last Testament of Oscar Wilde won the Somerset Maugham Award; Hawksmoor was awarded both the Whitbread Novel of the Year and the Guardian Fiction Prize; and Chatterton was short-listed for the Booker Prize. His most recent historical novel was The Clerkenwell Tales. He is also the author of Shakespeare: The Biography and the Ackroyd’s Brief Lives series.
John Keating's numerous acting credits include Roundabout Theatre's production of Juno and the Paycock and La Mama ETC's production of Cat and the Moon, as well as various parts with the Irish Repertory Theater and the Irish Arts Center. He is a regular performer with the Independent Shakespeare Company and can also be seen in the HBO original mini-series John Adams, starring Paul Giamatti and Laura Linney. John's audiobook narrations have earned Earphone Awards and an Audie nomination. Most notably, he's read Eoin Colfer's Airman, Avi's The Traitors' Gate, and Jenny Nimmo's The Snow Spider. He also lent his voice to many of Patrick Taylor's Irish Country audiobooks.
Riveting, complex & super well written, "The Lambs of London" is yet another fully submersive foray into a previous age from Ackroyd, whose magnum opus I feel ultimately to be "Hawksmoor." Here, we deal not with gothic architecture but with the Bard himself, ultimate emblem for all good British thin......more
A rather strange little book for a number of reasons. In the first place, the eponymous characters, the brother-and-sister authors Charles and Mary Lamb (1775-1834 and 1764-1847 respectively) were not the main characters of this story. That honour belonged to one William Henry Ireland (1775-1835), f......more
I picked this up at the library book sale 8 or 9 years ago. It is on the 1001 list and I wanted to take advantage of its availability (at 50 cents!). Obviously, it has languished on my shelf, patiently waiting my attention. I ignored it because I thought it was a biographical novel of people about w......more
Charles and Mary Lamb are still living at their parents’ home. Charles, an aspiring writer, works as a clerk at the East India Company, and enjoys a drink or three too often at the local pub. Meanwhile his sister, Mary, is trapped in domesticity, caring for her ailing father and her maddening mother......more
It's a nice, easy read, fairly entertaining, falling a little flat at the end. Apparently based on painstaking research, though if it had been completely made-up, it would have made little difference to me. There are two rather jarring sex scenes that have no connection with the story and which I fe......more
“[A] gorgeously textured fictional narrative…English essayist Charles Lamb is the focal point around which Ackroyd tells a stylish, intelligent, and suspenseful tale.” Booklist (starred review)
“Steeping readers in revealing but unobtrusive period detail, Ackroyd once again delivers a psychologically rich evocation of a vanished time.” Publishers Weekly
“A delicious entertainment, faithful to its period, but done with the lightest of touches…Nobody knows this world better than Peter Ackroyd, and his latest foray into bygone London finds him at the top of his form.” Sunday Telegraph (London)
“Touching and ingenious.” Times Literary Supplement (London)