Samuel Pepys walked round London for miles. The walk to his office in Whitehall from his home near the Tower of London was accomplished on an almost daily basis, and so many of his professional conversations took place while walking that the streets became for him an alternative to his office. With Walking Pepys's London, the reader will come to know the life of the city from the pavement up, and see its streets from the perspective of this renowned diarist.

The city was almost as much a character in Pepys's life as his family or friends, and the book draws many parallels between the London he witnessed to the present day. Colliss Harvey's new book reconstructs the sensory and emotional experience of the past, bringing geography, biography and history into one. Full of fascinating details this book is an unmissable exploration into the places that the greatest English diarist of all time made his own.