by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 30, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
I’m an absolute sucker for an antique map. Those things are works of art, and you wonder, in an age well before human flight, how the cartographer managed such detail. Have a google of rare map dealers – here’s one – a lot of antique maps... 
by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 29, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
Since the first three Pepys Mysteries novels are written and ready to go, I can zip forward a couple of months to Book 3: The Coffee House Murders (out 31 October), in which Pepys’s inquisitors, Abby Harcourt and Jacob Standish, become embroiled in coffee and... 
by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 28, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
I love folk-horror; in fact, I considered writing a series of folk-horror novels – and may still come back to it, one day – before I hit upon the concept of the Pepys Mysteries, which excited me even more. Having promised book recommendations, here’s... 
by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 27, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
I remember writing my very first Pepys Mystery – which feels like an age ago – the introductory novella, Mr Pepys’s Stolen Diaries. It was my first dip into 17th century London and I remember thinking, What did the houses look like? Happily, there... 
by nick@nickgriffiths.co.uk | Aug 26, 2024 | Pepys & 17th
I’ll occasionally pick out an entry from Samuel Pepys’s diary, which tickled me for some reason. This one highlights how very similar we are to Sam and his wife, Elizabeth, though existing many centuries apart. It’s an episode in which things go bump in the night…...