Jack Jewers on Samuel Pepys: Historical mystery and Restoration London

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  Hello and welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  I'm Georgina Godwin.

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  My guest today is a writer, a filmmaker, a publisher

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  and a visual artist whose work moves across film, television, digital media and fiction.

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  His first novel, The Lost Diary of Samuel Pepys,

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  imagine what might have happened after the most famous diary in English literature came to an end.

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  Well, now he returns to Restoration London with Seething Lane.

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  It's January 1670. London is frozen.

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  Samuel Pepys is still at the Navy office, still living on Seething Lane,

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  and still caught between public duty and private appetite.

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  Around him are Elizabeth Pepys, Will Hewer, Charles II, the Duke of Monmouth, Nell Gwynne, Aphra Ben,

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  and a city full of spies, actors, preachers and servants.

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  The book is an historical mystery,

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  but it's also a portrait of a man who notices everything and sometimes still misses what matters.

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  Jack Dewars, welcome to Meet the Writers.

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  Thank you so much for having me.

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  That was a great intro.

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  Jack, you and I have known each other for a while.

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  You are married to Ava Glass, who is the spy thriller writer.

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  Recently, well, last December, we were on the extraordinary literary cruise on the Queen Mary.

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