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Best Books to Remember the COVID-19 Pandemic
Updated as and when new books are published.
Hold Still: A Portrait of Our Nation in 2020 by The Duchess of Cambridge Patron of the National Portrait Gallery
Presenting a true portrait of Britain in 2020, this book includes a foreword by The Duchess of Cambridge with each image presenting a unique and highly personal record of this extraordinary period in our history. From virtual birthday parties, community clapping to brave NHS staff, resilient keyworkers and people dealing with illness, isolation and loss. The images convey humour and grief, creativity and kindness, tragedy and hope during COVID-19.
Chefs at Home by Hospitality Action
COVID-19 has created unprecedented country-wide lockdowns, which have forced restaurants, cafés and bars across the UK to close their doors. The devastation swept through the country and saw long queues at supermarkets with limited ingredients on the shelves, forcing us to dig into the back of our cupboards for those emergency tins. Our favourite chefs including Tom Kerridge, Jamie Oliver, Gordon Ramsay and many more, were no exception so have come together to create a fundraising cookbook dedicated to every chef, waiter, bartender, sommelier and kitchen porter across the UK who has struggled throughout the pandemic.
How We Live Now: Scenes from the Pandemic by Bill Hayes
A bookstore where readers shout their orders from the street. A neighbourhood restaurant turned to-go place where one has a shared drink-on either end of a bar-with the owner. These scenes, among many others, became the new normal as soon as the world began to face the COVID-19 pandemic. Photographer Bill Hayes offers an ode to our shared humanity-capturing in real time this strange new world we're now live in. The book chronicles an unimaginable moment in time, offering a long-lasting reminder that what will gets us through this unprecedented, deadly crisis is each other.