Awards and Honours
- 1990 James Tait Black Memorial Prize, The Invisible Woman
- 1991 Hawthornden Prize, The Invisible Woman
- 2002 Whitbread Book Award, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2003 Rose Mary Crawshay Prize, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2003 Latham Prize of the Samuel Pepys Club, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2003 Samuel Johnson Prize, shortlist, Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
- 2011 Costa Book Awards (Biography), shortlist, Charles Dickens: A Life
- 2012 Honorary DLitt degree, University of Portsmouth
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