THE GRAND BIZARRE

A look at some more of the popular science books which have gone viral during the coronavirus pandemic. Since we compiled our first...

Peter May: Lockdown (Quercus Publishing 2020) Lockdown is an unusual entrant to Encyclopaedia Pandemica; not apocalyptic as such but a...

Daniel Defoe: A Journal of the Plague Year (E. Nutt, London 1722) Daniel Defoe (1660-1731) was an English merchant and spy, and also a...

Spillover: Animal Infections and The Next Human Pandemic by David Quammen (W. W. Norton & Company 2013. Published in the UK by Penguin)...