The Printer’s
Apprentice

A Novel of Plague, Fire, and the Press

by Thomas T. Wedow
Historical fiction · For adult readers

London, 1665. On Pudding Lane, Master Ellwood’s press takes work it should have refused. His daughter Anne, who reads type backwards, is the first to see that the errors in a stranger’s sheets are not errors at all — a Citty here, a goverment there. Then comes the fire.

Told in two hands — the printer’s daughter and his apprentice — and threaded with short essays on the London the novel passes through: Samuel Pepys and the Navy Office, the coffee-houses, the bills of mortality, plague medicine, and the scholars at Trinity breaking sunlight apart with prisms.

The book also carries a cipher for readers to solve. Good for reading groups, library stock and displays tied to the Great Plague and the Great Fire of London.

ISBN 9781066755769