Two interesting books in the post. First, this fascinating study by @simon_schama, focusing on the little-known pioneer of vaccination Waldemar Haffkine and his work combating cholera and bubonic plague in late 19th C India.

I was privileged to get an advance look at this, and it's characteristically both erudite and highly readable, and of course full of resonances with the Covid pandemic.

Second, this intriguing short volume from physics Nobel laureate Giorgio Parisi, which will hopefully go some way to explaining what he got his Nobel for - which was greeted with some head-scratching at the time.