From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of 'March' and 'People of the Book'. A young woman's struggle to save her family and her soul during the extraordinary year of 1666, when plague suddenly struck a small Derbyshire village.

The first of a new series, Y: the Last Man . Without warning, a mysterious plague kills every creature on the planet with a Y chromosome; in other words, no more men. Except one: amateur escape artist Yorick Brown has somehow survived. But it's now a very different world.

In post-apocalypse America, a survivor wanders the aftermath of a devastating war, trading tales for food and shelter. Fate touches him when he borrows the jacket of a long-dead postal worker and begins to weave his greatest tale - that of a world on the way to recovery.

Returning from a field trip, Isherwood Williams discovers that a mysterious plague has destroyed civilization during his absence. Eventually returning to San Francisco, he finds a female survivor and together they and their children build a small community, living like their pioneer ancestors.

This work follows Daniel Defoe's fictional narrator as he traces the devastating progress of the plague through the streets of London. Here we see a city transformed - some of its streets suspiciously empty and some overwhelmingly full of the sounds and smells of human suffering.