REISSUES

f you haven’t had enough of reading about deadly outbreaks, you’re in luck with this month’s paperbacks. (out now, HQ) is the novelwriting and screenwriter David Koepp. It centres on a Pentagon bioterror operative who, after a fast-mutating fungus gets loose in a secret underground facility, has one night to quarantine it and save humanity. We said: “Properly, full-on gross in places, but populated by a vividly-drawn cast of believably down-to-earth characters, with a plot that accelerates to breakneck pace.” author Daniel H Wilson is behind (out now, HarperCollins), a follow-up to Michael Crichton’s . It sees a team of government scientists assembled to journey into the Amazonian jungle, where there’s evidence that the Strain has evolved into something new and deadlier. We said: “Tautly told, often exciting and tense, and manages to avoid going where you’re expecting – partly by going a bit bonkers…” Finally, Cornelia Funke is the author of (1 July, Bloomsbury), a belated adaptation of Guillermo del Toro’s 2006 film. The core of the story remains the same, but the novel expands the fantasy aspects, fleshing out the fairy tales that are narrated on-screen. We said: “Makes a compelling alternative, and cements the story as a true 21st century fable.”