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COVID-19, Viruses and Infections - Fiction and non-fiction on the subject of the 2020 Coronavirus outbreak, and on viruses and infections.

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Books are listed in order of year of publication - newest titles are at the top. There are 34 books in this booklist

  • Cover image of book Stay: Stories from People in Covid-19 by Various authors
    Stay: Stories from People in Covid-19 - by Various authors

    £3.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781910580936 | ISBN 10: 1910580937

    In the height of the pandemic, the most vulnerable members of our community were ordered to stay home and stay safe in isolation. They endured loneliness, heartbreak, and loss, and yet throughout it all they remained filled with hope for better days. ... more

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  • Cover image of book When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic by Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins and Kandida Purnell (Editors)
    When This Is Over: Reflections on an Unequal Pandemic - by Amy Cortvriend, Lucy Easthope, Jenny Edkins and Kandida Purnell (Editors)

    £14.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781447368069 | ISBN 10: 1447368061

    The COVID-19 pandemic had a profound and persistent impact – a tragic loss of life, changes to established patterns of life and social inequalities laid bare. It brought out the good in many and the worst in others, and raised questions around what ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Advantages of Nearly Dying by Michael Rosen
    The Advantages of Nearly Dying - by Michael Rosen

    £8.99   paperback   (2023) - ISBN 13: 9781739772291 | ISBN 10: 1739772296

    Michael Rosen was dangerously ill from COVID at the beginning of 2020 and as doctors told him, if he hadn’t received treatment, he would have ‘gone’.  While he was in hospital, 42% of the patients on his intensive care ward died. He spent ... more

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  • Cover image of book Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One by Devi Sridhar
    Preventable: How a Pandemic Changed the World & How to Stop the Next One - by Devi Sridhar

    £20.00   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780241510537 | ISBN 10: 0241510538

    **THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER | BBC RADIO 4 BOOK OF THE WEEK**  The definitive story of COVID-19 and how global politics shape our health - from a world-leading expert and the pandemic's go-to science communicator.   Professor Devi Sri ... more

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  • Cover image of book A Year Like No Other: Life on a Low Income During COVID-19 by Various authors
    A Year Like No Other: Life on a Low Income During COVID-19 - by Various authors

    £14.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781447364696 | ISBN 10: 1447364694

    By Ruth Patrick, Maddy Power, Kayleigh Garthwaite, Jim Kaufman, Geoff Page and Katie Pybus.  Money was already tight for UK families living on a low income before the Covid-19 pandemic, but national lockdowns made life much harder. Telling th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Crisis And Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic by Adrian Shanker (Editor)
    Crisis And Care: Queer Activist Responses to a Global Pandemic - by Adrian Shanker (Editor)

    £15.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781629639352 | ISBN 10: 1629639354

    Crisis and Care reveals what is possible when activists mobilize for the radical changes our society needs. In a time of great uncertainty, fear, and isolation, queer activists organized for health equity, prison abolition, racial justice, and more. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic by Stu Hennigan
    Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic - by Stu Hennigan

    £12.00   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781910422960 | ISBN 10: 1910422967

    Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic - An eyewitness account of the impact of the early days of the pandemic on those living in poverty in Leeds, as Stu Hennigan delivered emergency food and medicine to communities that had already suffered 10 years ... more

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  • Cover image of book Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain
    Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus - by Jonathan Calvert and George Arbuthnott

    £10.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780008430559 | ISBN 10: 0008430551

    The inside story of the UK's response to the pandemic from the Insight investigations unit at The Sunday Times.  Failures of State: The Inside Story of Britain's Battle with Coronavirus recounts the extraordinary political decisions taken at the ... more

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  • Cover image of book Everything is True: A Junior Doctor
    Everything is True: A Junior Doctor's Story of Life, Death and Grief in a Time of Pandemic - by Dr Roopa Farooki

    £14.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781526633392 | ISBN 10: 1526633396

    CHOSEN AS A BOOK OF 2022 BY THE GUARDIAN 'A STAND OUT' SUNDAY TIMES 'STARTLINGLY HONEST AND DEVASTATINGLY GOOD' RACHEL CLARKE, GUARDIAN 'BRILLIANT' OBSERVER  'The most powerful and evocative account of working through the pandemic that I have ... more

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  • Cover image of book NHS Under Siege: The Fight to Save it in the Age of Covid by John Lister & Jacky Davis plus expert contributors
    NHS Under Siege: The Fight to Save it in the Age of Covid - by John Lister & Jacky Davis plus expert contributors

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9780850367775 | ISBN 10: 0850367778

    The NHS is in crisis. The past 12 years of Tory real-terms cuts in funding have been disastrous.  John Lister and Jacky Davis look at the threat to the NHS posed by the combination of two years of a global pandemic and the relentless policies ... more

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  • Cover image of book House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries by Alan Bennett
    House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries - by Alan Bennett

    £6.99   hardback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781800811928 | ISBN 10: 1800811926

    Reflections on Covid and confinement from the unparalleled pen of Alan Bennett.  4 March. HMQ pictured in the paper at an investiture wearing gloves, presumably as a precaution against Coronavirus. But not just gloves; these are almost gauntl ... more

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  • Cover image of book Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS by Michael Rosen, illustrated by by Chris Riddell
    Many Different Kinds of Love: A Story of Life, Death and the NHS - by Michael Rosen, illustrated by by Chris Riddell

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781529109467 | ISBN 10: 1529109469

    A national treasure's journey to the brink and back.   'Will I wake up?' 'There's a 50:50 chance.'  Michael Rosen wasn't feeling well. Soon he was struggling to breathe, and then he was admitted to hospital, suffering from coronavirus as th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Dying to Know: Running Through a Pandemic by Rob Donovan
    Dying to Know: Running Through a Pandemic - by Rob Donovan

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781803130118 | ISBN 10: 1803130113

    Dying to Know – Why the unthinkable has happened.   I am a runner with a special local circuit. One and three-quarter miles up to the top of the hill at Little Trevalgan, within the Penwith peninsula in Cornwall – and then back down again ... more

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  • Cover image of book Spike: The Virus vs. The People: The Inside Story by Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja
    Spike: The Virus vs. The People: The Inside Story - by Jeremy Farrar with Anjana Ahuja

    £9.99   paperback   (2022) - ISBN 13: 9781788169233 | ISBN 10: 1788169239

    First book on Covid-19 by a scientist on SAGE, assessing how the government 'followed the science'   ***THE TOP 5 SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER***  A pulse-racing journey through the science and politics of the pandemic. Did the UK government really ... more

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  • Cover image of book Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic by Rachel Clarke
    Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of Pandemic - by Rachel Clarke

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780349144566 | ISBN 10: 0349144567

    THE SUNDAY TIMES TOP TEN BESTSELLER NOW A MAJOR TV DRAMA   How does it feel to confront a pandemic from the inside, one patient at a time? To bridge the gulf between a perilously unwell patient in quarantine and their distraught family outsid ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic by New York Times Magazine (Editors)
    The Decameron Project: 29 New Stories from the Pandemic - by New York Times Magazine (Editors)

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781398502185 | ISBN 10: 1398502189

    A stunning collection of new short stories originally commissioned by The New York Times Magazine as the COVID-19 pandemic swept the world, from twenty-nine authors including Margaret Atwood, Tommy Orange, Colm Toibin, Kamilia Shamsie, David Mitchell ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic by Paolo Gerbaudo
    The Great Recoil: Politics after Populism and Pandemic - by Paolo Gerbaudo

    £16.99   hardback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788730501 | ISBN 10: 178873050x

    What comes after neoliberalism?   In these times of health emergency, economic collapse, populist anger and ecological threat, societies are forced to turn inward in search of protection. Neoliberalism, the ideology that presided over deca ... more

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  • Cover image of book Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown by James Attlee
    Under the Rainbow: Voices from Lockdown - by James Attlee

    £11.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781913505066 | ISBN 10: 1913505065

    As Britain entered lockdown in the spring of 2020, drawings, paintings and messages proliferated in windows and gardens across the country: signs of the eternal human desire to communicate, even as face-to-face contact became impossible.  When r ... more

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  • Cover image of book The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop by Adam Kucharski
    The Rules of Contagion: Why Things Spread - and Why They Stop - by Adam Kucharski

    £9.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9781788160209 | ISBN 10: 1788160207

    A deadly virus suddenly explodes into the population. A political movement gathers pace, and then quickly vanishes.  An idea takes off like wildfire, changing our world forever. We live in a world that's more interconnected than ever before. Our ... more

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  • Cover image of book Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration by Danny Dorling
    Slowdown: The End of the Great Acceleration - by Danny Dorling

    £10.99   paperback   (2021) - ISBN 13: 9780300257960 | ISBN 10: 0300257961

    The end of our high-growth world was underway well before COVID-19 arrived. In this powerful and timely argument, Danny Dorling demonstrates the benefits of a larger, ongoing societal slowdown.  Drawing from an incredibly rich trove of global dat ... more

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  • Cover image of book Teaching in the Online Classroom: Surviving and Thriving in the New Normal by Doug Lemov
    Teaching in the Online Classroom: Surviving and Thriving in the New Normal - by Doug Lemov

    £15.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781119762935 | ISBN 10: 1119762936

    A timely guide to online teaching strategies from bestselling author Doug Lemov and the Teach Like a Champion team.  School closures in response to the covid-19 coronavirus pandemic resulted in an immediate and universal pivot to online teaching. ... more

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  • Cover image of book Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) by Dean Spade
    Mutual Aid: Building Solidarity During This Crisis (and the next) - by Dean Spade

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781839762123 | ISBN 10: 1839762128

    Around the world, people are faced with crisis after crisis, from the COVID-19 pandemic and climate change-induced fires, floods, and storms to the ongoing horrors of mass incarceration, brutal immigration enforcement, endemic gender violence, and se ... more

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  • Cover image of book We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility by Marc Lamont Hill
    We Still Here: Pandemic, Policing, Protest, and Possibility - by Marc Lamont Hill

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781642594539 | ISBN 10: 1642594539

    In the midst of loss and death and suffering, our charge is to figure out what freedom really means - and how we take steps to get there.   "In the United States, being poor and Black makes you more likely to get sick. Being poor, Black, and ... more

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  • Cover image of book Letters from Lockdown: A Selection of Covid Chronicles from BBC Radio 4
    Letters from Lockdown: A Selection of Covid Chronicles from BBC Radio 4's PM Programme - by Various authors, with a Foreword by Evan Davis

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781784744342 | ISBN 10: 1784744344

    A remarkable collection of 'Covid Chronicles' -- stories from lockdown sent in from listeners to BBC Radio 4 -- making a deeply moving people's history of the pandemic. The perfect gift to help you reflect and find hope this Christmas.  On 23 Ma ... more

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  • Cover image of book Blinded by Corona: How the Pandemic Ruined Britain
    Blinded by Corona: How the Pandemic Ruined Britain's Health and Wealth and What to Do about It - by John Ashton

    £12.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781783341955 | ISBN 10: 1783341955

    Professor Ashton has lifelong hands-on experience and a deep scholarly understanding of the science of public health, a discipline invented in Britain. In this scathing critique he notes that nothing that the UK government has done to deal with COVID ... more

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  • Cover image of book Duty of Care by Dr Dominic Pimenta
    Duty of Care - by Dr Dominic Pimenta

    £8.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781787395596 | ISBN 10: 1787395596

    The first book to tell the full story of the COVID-19 pandemic from a doctor on the frontline.   ALL ROYALTIES FROM SALES GO TO HEROES, A CHARITY PROTECTING AND SUPPORTING HEALTHCARE WORKERS.  On the 8th of February, Dr Dominic Pimenta e ... more

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  • Cover image of book Understanding Coronavirus by Raul Rabadan
    Understanding Coronavirus - by Raul Rabadan

    £9.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781108826716 | ISBN 10: 1108826717

    Since the identification of the first cases of the coronavirus in December 2019 in Wuhan, China, there has been a significant amount of confusion regarding the origin and spread of the so-called 'coronavirus', officially named SARS-CoV-2, and the cau ... more

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  • Cover image of book Intimations: Six Essays by Zadie Smith
    Intimations: Six Essays - by Zadie Smith

    £5.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780241492383 | ISBN 10: 0241492386

    "As well as offering a new guide to living in a wild, messy and unfair world, Smith provides a reminder that we can use this crisis to imagine a better one"(Evening Standard ) Deeply personal and powerfully moving, a short and timely series of ess ... more

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  • Cover image of book Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar (Editors)
    Pandemic Solidarity: Mutual Aid During the Covid-19 Crisis - by Marina Sitrin and Colectiva Sembrar (Editors)

    £14.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9780745343167 | ISBN 10: 0745343163

    In times of crisis, when institutions of power are laid bare, people turn to one another. Pandemic Solidarity collects firsthand experiences from around the world of people creating their own narratives of solidarity and mutual aid in the time of the ... more

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  • Cover image of book How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises by Paolo Giordano
    How Contagion Works: Science, Awareness and Community in Times of Global Crises - by Paolo Giordano

    £2.99   paperback   (2020) - ISBN 13: 9781474619288 | ISBN 10: 1474619282

    The Covid-19 pandemic is the most significant health emergency of our time.   Writing from Italy in lockdown, physicist and novelist Paolo Giordano explains how disease spreads in our interconnected world: why it mattershow it impacts ushow we ... more

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  • Cover image of book Viruses: A Very Short Introduction by Dorothy H. Crawford
    Viruses: A Very Short Introduction - by Dorothy H. Crawford

    £8.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780198811718 | ISBN 10: 0198811713

    Viruses are big news. From pandemics such as HIV, to swine flu, and SARS, we are constantly being bombarded with information about new lethal infections. In this Very Short Introduction Dorothy Crawford demonstrates how clever these entities really a ... more

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  • Cover image of book Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History by Dorothy H. Crawford
    Deadly Companions: How Microbes Shaped our History - by Dorothy H. Crawford

    £9.99   paperback   (2018) - ISBN 13: 9780198815440 | ISBN 10: 0198815441

    Ever since we started huddling together in communities, the story of human history has been inextricably entwined with the story of microbes. They have evolved and spread amongst us, shaping our culture through infection, disease, and pandemic. At th ... more

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  • Cover image of book Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction by Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker
    Infectious Disease: A Very Short Introduction - by Marta Wayne and Benjamin Bolker

    £8.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9780199688937 | ISBN 10: 0199688931

    As doctors and biologists have learned, to their dismay, infectious disease is a moving target: new diseases emerge every year, old diseases evolve into new forms, and ecological and socioeconomic upheavals change the transmission pathways by which d ... more

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  • Cover image of book Station Eleven by Emily St. John Mandel
    Station Eleven - by Emily St. John Mandel

    £9.99   paperback   (2015) - ISBN 13: 9781447268970 | ISBN 10: 1447268970

    The New York Times Bestseller WINNER OF THE ARTHUR C. CLARKE AWARD 2015 Longlisted for the Baileys Women's Prize for Fiction 2015 2014 National Book Awards Finalist 2015 PEN/Faulkner Award Finalist   What was lost in the collapse: almost every ... more

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