Wilkie collins, paperback/peter ackroyd

Paperback edition of Ackroyds biography of the great Victorian novelist, author of }The Woman In White{ and }The Moonstone{.

Follows his life from his birth as the son of a well-known artist, through his struggles to become a writer, his years of fame and his life-long friendships with Charles Dickens.

From the acclaimed author who has written biographies of Dickens, Blake, Chaucer, Poe, Shakespeare and many others.