by eleanorh | May 11, 2020 | Uncategorized
With roughly one third of the world’s population currently living under lockdown, 2020 has already brought a greater simultaneous disruption to people’s lives than most of us can remember. Stuck inside our homes for the best part of the day, those of us who are not...
by eleanorh | May 5, 2020 | Uncategorized
We had just started our annual History of Books and Reading seminar series on the theme of ‘Reading and Wellbeing’ when the COVID-19 pandemic broke. In the space of two months, lives have been turned upside down and our most natural instincts suppressed. Pandemic...
by eleanorh | May 4, 2020 | Uncategorized
(Because one is never enough) Has my reading changed under lockdown? Four or five weeks ago, I might have said yes, I’m reading the kind of books I read on holiday. This is how my first book, Hilary Mantel’s The Mirror & the Light (4th Estate, 2020), found its way...