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Popular narrative history at its best, well researched, imaginatively and dramatically written... The author marshals his story and his mass of contemporary quotation with great skill. (Times Literary Supplement) Hanson's book sifts through the ashes and comes up with some intriguing theories. (Daily Mail) The Best Depiction of the Great Fire seen to date... He manages to describe not only the atmosphere of the event itself, but also the experience of living in seventeenth century Britain. (Soho Independent) Neil Hanson's descriptions of the inferno are like CNN reports from Kosovo. (Camden New Journal) Blends high--class original research with a pacy narrative style that mimics fiction... Horrific subjects have served this man well and he has a knack for plugging into the dark themes that run like molten rivers beneath our social veneer. (New Zealand Herald) Extraordinary images abound: molten lead pours off St Paul's cathedral and runs silver in the streets; bodies burn six feet under in their graves. (New Zealand Listener) It's not the technical data which makes the book so riveting though. It's the flair with which Hanson invests his account with qualities usually reserved for novels -- narrative drive, persuasive character sketches, vivid scene stealing. (Sunday Star Times) (New Zealand) A horror story, well--researched and very well told, which will make you rethink your ideas on desirable old villas and tightly packed terraced suburbs. (Evening Post) (Auckland) ...when one reads Neil Hanson's meticulously researched, utterly fascinating new account, ...uncanny parallels between the two September events suddenly ...appear... (The New York Times Book Review, September 22, 2002)

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NEIL HANSON is the author of The Custom of the Sea (Wiley) and thirty other books under his own name and a variety of pen names. He lives in West Yorkshire, England.

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