Hardback edition was a Sunday Times bestseller Vivid social history of London in one of its greatest and most popular periods Paperback editions of Restoration London and Dr Johnson's London have been reprinted many times 20,000 copies of hardback edition already sold 'An exuberant book...a conscientious and scholarly analysis of London's condition in the 16th century...Reading this book is like taking a ride on a marvellously exhilarating time-machine, alive with colour, surprise and sheer merriment' Jan Morris, New Statesman

Liza Picard was born in 1927. She is the bestselling author an acclaimed series of books on the history of London: Elizabeth's London, Restoration London, Dr Johnson's London and Victorian London. Her most recent book, Chaucer's People, explores the Middle Ages through the lives of the pilgrims in The Canterbury Tales. She read law at the London School of Economics and was called to the Bar by Gray's Inn, but did not practise. She worked for many years in the office of the Solicitor of the Inland Revenue before retiring to become a full-time author. She lives in London.