Hawksmoor
Author: Peter Ackroyd
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 h….Read More
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