Letter: Plagued by book prizes
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Your support makes all the difference.Sir: Tom Wilkie is entitled to his opinion of the relative merits of Arno Karlen's Plague's Progress and Laurie Garrett's The Coming Plague, I'd like to point out, however, that Plague's Progress was praised by Oliver Sacks for its "combination of meticulous research and easy, natural writing", and by Roy Porter for its avoidance of hysteria, its clarity and completeness. I only wish Mr Wilkie had been equally assiduous in his avoidance of hysteria.
MIKE PETTY
Editorial Director
Victor Gollancz
London, WC2
Victor Gollancz are the publishers of 'Plague's Progress'
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