Samuel Pepys (1633–1703) is the most famous diarist in English letters. From 1660 t0 1669, he penned an unforgettable day-by-day description of Restoration London, with its disasters (the Great Plague ...

Samuel Pepys: a LIfe Stephen Coote Hodder & Stoughton £20, pp350 Buy it at BOL For the past 175 years, the name Samuel Pepys has been synonymous with an activity that none of his contemporaries knew ...

Claire Tomalin, biographer of Jane Austen and Mary Wollstonecraft, has taken the 17th-century diarist Samuel Pepys as her latest subject. The Bookseller Editorial Team Claire Tomalin, biographer of ...

Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self by Claire Tomalin Viking £20, pp499 With the exception of Shakespeare, it's difficult to image a terrain more treacherous for the biographer than Samuel Pepys, who ...

Sei Shonagon (Painting by Uemura Shoen, 1917-18. Public domain) By Damian Flanagan A few weeks ago, I attended a rather unusual concert in Cambridge, England. All the pieces of music dated from the ...

The London Samuel Pepys knew has been transformed, but many of his old haunts can still be found. Sally Varlow is your guide It isn't quite a national scandal but it's pretty close. Samuel Pepys, he ...