Cosy crime, cookbooks and a surprise hit: what we’ve really read in the pandemic
It was a chance to finally get around to Tolstoy or Proust, but the charts tell a different story. Which books did we actually turn to in the lockdowns?
Lockdown 2: it's back, with more self-improvement guilt than ever before
Eleanor Margolis
For those of us who didn’t get fit, bake bread, or read Proust last time round, the fear of failing yet again is mounting, says Eleanor Margolis, a columnist for the i newspaper
From Harry Potter at Home to the National Shelf Service: bookish fun for the lockdown
An updating list of online treats for bibliophiles of all ages, including Hogwarts quizzes, Simon Armitage and a star-packed reading of James and the Giant Peach
Poems to get us through: Billy Collins salutes the spark of human ingenuity
Poems chosen from Carol Ann Duffy’s shelves to comfort and inspire us in isolation. Here, America’s favourite poet travels back before the start of civilisation
