Season 3 · Episode 2
Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR Part One
Raising hell in London
The Curiously Specific Book Club · Curiously Specific
January 23, 202348m 25s
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Show Notes
After NEVERWHERE by Neil Gaiman, we’re back with another book that manifests London in mysterious and unsettling ways. Peter Ackroyd’s HAWKSMOOR tells the tale of Nicholas Dyer, a fictional architect of the early 18th century who has been charged with building seven new churches but has his own sinister, not to say Satanic purposes. In Part One we begin at Scotland Yard in Whitehall, scene of Nicholas Dyer’s studio and the original home of the Metropolitan Police. From there we take in three of the real Nicholas Hawksmoor’s churches, while discussing the lives of Peter Ackroyd and Hawksmoor, as well as the quite extraordinarily bleak year of the book’s publication, 1985.
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