The Ashes of London

‘Andrew Taylor has been quietly producing superb historical fiction since long before Hilary Mantel’s Man Booker wins bestowed literary respectability on the genre’

Daily Telegraph

‘If you liked C. J. Sansom, or Hilary Mantel, you’ll love Andrew Taylor’

Peter James

‘Taylor is as good at this period as C. J. Sansom is at Tudor England, and like him pulls off novels that work both as literary fiction and detective stories’

Independent

‘Hugely entertaining, beguiling and atmospheric’

Observer

‘Andrew Taylor is one of the most imaginative historical novelists writing today’

Globe and Mail

Contents

Cover (#uabe2832f-2a67-513b-aacd-10187c337d89)

Title Page (#ubd162b0b-3ed9-5471-b9df-d83af8fc3b3c)

Copyright (#ue9a04511-7725-5128-a76f-fe2de7d73f24)

Dedication (#u32cf8322-9caf-545a-ba2c-04e1caddb98f)

Map (#u7033423e-e71b-5f9c-ac21-1f8c112131e9)

Praise for The Ashes of London (#u2c458a06-a68c-5dd8-8c40-bcc81abb26b2)

Praise for Andrew Taylor (#u72d28d2c-9ad6-5651-8984-df1f8904ec15)

Author’s Note (#uca58a912-cd67-5164-ad8d-3777f0ebe9e9)

Part I: Ashes and Fire – 4–8 September 1666 (#ud197df1d-613f-5498-a4d6-4b93f30d4e6b)

Chapter One (#uc19b142c-97c4-5d3e-a6e3-8b07bbaaba23)

Chapter Two (#u2faa89a8-4139-599b-8de3-1a9faadde885)

Chapter Three (#u67a98dfa-2239-573c-807f-6ea734054679)

Chapter Four (#u048bc19b-b253-5275-9b93-c5005b079590)

Chapter Five (#u52a33b8d-3ba6-5bc1-87e2-a9615c008d08)

Chapter Six (#ua1cd4643-f56c-5a12-81dc-c000a38a8fea)

Chapter Seven (#udcb934e7-f3e8-58f1-8b01-6a6c26462038)

Chapter Eight (#u5c05c7c6-94e7-5a3f-a91b-c878a17daf57)

Chapter Nine (#u32bcd21d-1a5a-5311-bab5-91868ff2f28f)

Chapter Ten (#u75763a34-5ecf-53f1-83a9-61069bb8dcef)

Part II: Ashes and Water – 6 September–31 October 1666 (#u0a5d39e2-bfca-5665-be5a-3ff79f79eb7f)

Chapter Eleven (#u48d9aea0-6427-5cde-b0ac-bdb8b57cd83b)

Chapter Twelve (#ua7faf817-6a86-50d6-a50e-11a932b745a7)

Chapter Thirteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fourteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Fifteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Sixteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Seventeen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Eighteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Nineteen (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-One (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Two (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Three (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Four (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Five (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Six (#litres_trial_promo)

Part III: Ashes and Earth – 28 October–10 November 1666 (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Seven (#litres_trial_promo)

Chapter Twenty-Eight (#litres_trial_promo)