UK and Ireland

Personal narratives, descriptions, and arguments about Covid in the United Kingdom and Ireland. Click on image for detailed record.

Diary of a Conspiracy Theorist
by Scott Anderson
May 2023, independently published

The Covid Letters: A Vital Update
by Jonny Banger
October 2020, independently published

Letters from Lockdown: A Selection of Covid Chronicles from BBC Radio 4’s PM Programme
November 2020, Chatto and Windus

House Arrest: Pandemic Diaries
by Alan Bennett
May 2022, Profile Books

Everyday Life in the Covid-19 Pandemic: Mass Observation’s 12th May Diaries
edited by Nick Clarke
May 2024, Bloomsbury Academic

COVID-19 and Shame: Political Emotions and Public Health in the UK
by Fred Cooper, et al
February 2023, Bloomsbury Academic

A State of Fear: How the UK Government Weaponised Fear during the Covid-19 Pandemic
by Laura Dodsworth
May 2021, Pinter and Martin

Standing By: A Walk Through London’s Dark Theatres in the Time of Pandemic
by Nina Dunn
October 2020, The Fifth Estate

The Hero’s Voice: Finding the Courage to Speak Out
by Mike Fairclough
March 2024, Fisher King

Writedown: Lockdown in the Galloway Glens at the Time of Covid
by Glenkens Writers’ Group
November 2020, independently published

London in Lockdown
by Jilke Golbach
October 2021, Hoxton Press

Ghost Signs: Poverty and the Pandemic
by Stu Hennigan
June 2022, Bluemoose Books

The Year the World Went Wonky! Memoir of a Pandemic from Cobh, on the Great Island
by Marion Rose Horgan
2021, Self-published via Lettertec

The Coronapanic Debacle
by Ben Irvine
September 2022, independently published

My Road to Freedom: Notes from a Lockdown Delivery Driver
by Ben Irvine
August 2023, independently published

Resilience: Lessons from Sir William Wilde on Life after Covid
by Brendan Kelly
January 2024, Wordwell Books

Devil in a Coma: A Memoir
by Mark Lanegan
December 2021, White Rabbit

Birdsong in a Time of Silence
by Steven Lovatt
March 2021, Particular Books

Lockdown In An Irish Rural Community
images by Alan Mahon, text by Lisa McDonald
2020, Wexford County Council

Questioning Lockdown
by Moira M. Malcolm
March 2022, independently published

Twilight Together: Portraits of Ireland at Home
by Ruth Medjber
November 2020, Doubleday Ireland

The Last Good Funeral of the Year: A Memoir
by Ed O’Loughlin
March 2022, Riverrun

Unvaxxed Soul: A Post Pandemic Spirit Journey
by “gerard-thomas” [Gerry O’Neill]
November 2025, independently published

Covid-19, the Second World War, and the Idea of Britishness
edited by Joanne Pettitt
August 2021, Peter Lang

The Fatal Breath: Covid-19 and Society in Britain
by David Vincent
November 2023, Polity Press

Emergency State: How We Lost Our Freedoms in the Pandemic and Why it Matters
by Adam Wagner
October 2022, Bodley Head

The Cult of Covid: How Lockdown Destroyed Britain
by Jamie Walden
March 2022, independently published