Three Brothers

I have long suspected that some writers receive critical praise based on their reputation rather than the merits of a particular work. After reading 'Three Brothers', I am more than ever convinced that that is the case. Its author, Peter Ackroyd, is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and ha......more

Three Brothers, Three Decades, One Disappointment He doesn't actually begin "Once upon a time," but Peter Ackroyd captures the fabulist tone perfectly in the opening of his new novel: In the London borough of Camden, in the middle of the last century, there lived three brothers; they were three you......more

i love curious coincidences, mysterious disappearing nuns and atmospheric London corruption as much as the next man, but i was a but disappointed by this novels’ ending (a sadly trite attempt to pull all its strings together into a neat knot) and kinda underdeveloped familial feelings. Sparkler was......more

This is an amazing book that has an amazing atmosphere where you have a strong sense both the physical and historical setting. All characters and plot is intertwined through the three brothers. And the story itself is full of twisty and suspenseful events in the realm of business, politics, blackmai......more

Their lives began in the place that came to define them: Born in Camden Town, in London, in a council estate, in the Mid-Twentieth Century. "Three Brothers: A Novel" tells the tale of Harry, Daniel, and Sam Hanway, born one year apart on the same date (May 8); their distant and distracted father is s......more