As Robert pointed out to me, Mary Beard's The Fires of Vesuvius: Pompeii Lost and Found is sold (at least in some versions) in the UK as Pompeii: The Life of a Roman Town.
Re-reading the fascinating book, the latter title, though not as catchy, makes eminent sense to me: Indeed the author largely describes life in a Roman town, glimpsed from the archaeological findings and supporting historical evidence.
What I really like about the book is that Mary Beard applies her usual skeptical attitude against hasty, gratuitous, or probably outright false, assumptions – in other words, no nonsense and diligent scholarship. Yes, we know a lot, but we also don't know a lot, and we better look at all of it very carefully.
(Wikimedia Commons has quite a few images of ancient Pompeii, which can be found here, organized by subject.)