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A BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK
'Powerfully argued... Fascinating and pacy' Sunday Times, Book of the Week
'Superbly written... sure to please readers of Yuval Noah Harari or Rutger Bregman' The Times
'Full of amazing facts' Observer
'The book shines when it brings cutting-edge science to bear' Financial…
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I reviewed this for The Salisbury Review and wasn’t expecting to like it. But I did.
I had no idea that the Roman Empire had suffered various plagues and that these, rather than Christianity, may have led to its downfall. And maybe the Neanderthals died out because we modern humans gave them deadly diseases.
You wouldn’t think a book about plagues and epidemics could be fun, but it was!
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