{"product_id":"9780241963265-secondhand-samuel-pepys-the-unequalled-self","title":"Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self","description":"'Sex, drink, plague, wars, marital conflict ... Claire Tomalin seizes the life with both hands' Hermione Lee\n\nClaire Tomalin's thrilling life of Pepys carried all before it when it was first published in 2002: it won the Whitbread Biography Award, and was then named Whitbread Book of the Year. Tomalin paints an unforgettable portrait of the man himself - diarist, civil servant, restless husband - who was present as a child at the execution of Charles l and later in life found himself briefly imprisoned in the Tower before\ndying peacefully in Clapham at the beginning of the new century. And in the background are a cast of hundred populating Tomalin's teeming canvas: from Nell Gwynn to Titus Oates, from pimps to puritans, from baronets to bawdy-house keepers.","brand":"Secondhand Stock","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49345840808155,"sku":"9780241963265-SECONDHAND","price":12.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0523\/7646\/9701\/files\/1118d7d3-9dce-4d74-a918-bdf23f4cc623.jpg?v=1790102279","url":"https:\/\/bookgrocer.com\/products\/9780241963265-secondhand-samuel-pepys-the-unequalled-self","provider":"Book Grocer","version":"1.0","type":"link"}