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Old Saint Paul's Volume 1: A Tale of the Plague and the Fire

Author
William Harrison Ainsworth
Read by
Finian Silverwood
Language
English
Length
7 hours 20 minutes
ISBN
9781836100904
Published
16 January 2026
Imprint
Fractal Press
  • Great Plague
  • Great Fire of London
  • 17th-century London
  • historical disaster
  • Gothic drama
  • survival
  • religious fanaticism
  • love and betrayal
  • urban catastrophe
  • human resilience

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As plague grips London, grocer Stephen Bloundel and apprentice Leonard Holt fight to protect a household while love, murder, deception, and fanatic prophecy swirl around St Paul’s. Survival and faith are tested as the city turns strange and fearful. Spoken as when old Saint Paul’s still asks what a shop can keep safe when the streets fill with dread.

Author

William Harrison Ainsworth (1805–1882) was the great Victorian showman of historical romance — a novelist who filled magazines and bookstalls with highwaymen, witches, Tudor courts, and London underworlds. Rookwood made Dick Turpin a legend; Jack Sheppard turned a thief into a popular hero; The Lancashire Witches brought the Pendle trials back to feverish life.

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