The Confessions of Samuel Pepys

A valuable, thought-provoking investigation of Pepys’s writing * Kate Loveman, author of The Strange History of Samuel Pepys’s Diary *A brilliantly entertaining and revealing new transcription of Pepys’s diary * Claire Tomalin *By compiling, translating and commenting on the sections of the diary that focus on Pepys’s personal life, he presents a powerful case for the prosecution… this portrait of a deeply flawed man enhances our understanding of one of England’s great diarists – Katherine Harvey * The Times *This newly explicit view of Pepys does not negate the continuing value of his diary - which remains a magnificent historical resource - but from now on it will be impossible to go to it in a state of innocence, let alone denial * Guardian *Never less than compellingly readable… adds so much to a fuller understanding of the man himself * Irish Independent *

Guy de la Bedoyere is a historian and writer with numerous books to his credit. One of very few people able today to read and use the system of shorthand used by the diarist Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), he has edited the letters exchanged by Pepys with the ‘other’ diarist John Evelyn (1620-1706) in Particular Friends: The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn, covering their 38-year association and friendship. He has also produced the only edition of Pepys’s correspondence to be published in modern times in The Letters of Samuel Pepys.

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