Jacky Colliss Harvey is a writer and editor. She is the author of the bestselling Red: A History of the Redhead (2015), The Animal’s Companion: People and their Pets, a 26,000-Year Love Story (2019) and Walking Pepys’s London (2021). She lives in London.

Written by Jacky Colliss Harvey

Painting of a giant face amid a city on fire at night with glowing embers and smoke, distant bridge and buildings visible.

So far and no further: the philosophy of Samuel Pepys

Pepys’s blind spot – his lack of self-awareness – made his diary-writing a fascinating act of self-disclosure

by Jacky Colliss Harvey