Paperback. Pub Date: 2010 Pages: 288 Publisher: Penguin Penguin Decades-ing you the novels that helped shape modern itain When they were published some were bestsellers. Some were considered scandalous And others were simply Misunderstood All represent their time and helped define their generation. while today each is considered a landmark work of storytelling. Peter Ackroyd's Hawksmoor was first published in 1985. Alternating between the eighteenth century. when Nicholas Dyer. assistant to Christopher Wren. builds seven London churches that house a terrible secret. and the 1980s. when London detective Nicholas Hawksmoor is investigating a series of gruesome murders on the sight of certain old churches. Hawksmoor is a illiant tale of darkness and shadow.