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1666: The Great Fire of London destroyed swathes of a city already crippled by a savage civil war, plague, and drought. Nothing escaped the flames, from the warehouses that lined the Thames to the old and neglected cathedral that loomed silently above: St Paul's. 'London was,' wrote one diarist, 'but is no more.' Yet within a generation London emerged as the greatest city in Europe, surpassing even Paris, the vainglorious capital of the Sun King, Louis XIV. The Phoenix tells the story of London's extraordinary resurgence and the lives of the five men who raised the city from the ashes: John Evelyn, diarist and gardener; Robert Hooke, scientist and architect; John Locke, the philosopher and economist; Nicolas Barbon, speculator and builder; and, most significantly of all, the architect of St Paul's Cathedral, Sir Christopher Wren.

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