Tales of a pandemic, real and imagined
In this week's edition of Book Box, The Sunday Times looks at new non-fiction titles about science, people and the science of people, from Thomas Erikson's best-selling Surrounded By series to the autobiography of inventor James Dyson
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First, he imagined a pandemic in fiction. Then he actually chronicled it for history.
American journalist Lawrence Wright, 74, has the unique and dubious honour of having written both a novel and non-fiction book about a viral pandemic, published in the space of a little over a year.