The Diary of Samuel Pepys

The Diary of Samuel PepysAuthor: Pepys, Samuel, Loveman, Kate, Loveman, Kate Autobiography: historical, political & military Published on 4 October 2018 by Everyman (Everyman's Library) in the United Kingdom as part of 'the Everyman's Library Classics' series. Hardback 712 pages 202 x 138 x 37 734g When Samuel Pepys (16331703) began writing in 1660 he was a young clerk living in London, struggling to pay his rent. Over the next nine years as he kept his journal, he rose to be

bringing austerity

Bring work clothes

'Now that he is dead

His talent for uncovering new material that casts fresh light on his subjects is fully evident in this masterful

Gaeltacht Quarter

done to a turn fish and chips

and the ways in which societies mend – or don’t – in the aftermath of a long and bloody conflict

1 eight-page plate section of mainly black and white photographs

to a ramshackle seaside bungalow in New York’s Far Rockaway that Smith acquires just before Hurricane Sandy hits

and shares memories of his village youth - from his favourite pub to winter skating on the pond

that put my perfectly healthy dog to sleep

Jeremy Lewis brings this extraordinary era brilliantly to life