Coming soon: Devi Sridhar’s spring best-seller

It’s been a tough pandemic for all of us here in Britain. Lockdowns, supply shortages, over-zealous policemen and Matt Hancock’s gurning face – there’s been a shortage of joy these past 18 months. But now Mr S is delighted to discover there is light at the end of the tunnel: a forthcoming book bonanza by Covid experts – and Devi Sridhar – who have all somehow found time to pen books on the global crisis despite being proven wrong again and again. Below is Steerpike’s guide to all the titles which won’t be flying off the bookshelves in the forthcoming months….

First, we have the aforementioned Sridhar, who finally has a release date in May for her book: Preventable: The politics of the pandemic and how to stop the next one. A breathless PR plug for the book claims the ‘definitive’ work uses the spellbinding story of the Covid-19 pandemic to show how global politics shape our health’ contrasting ‘over-confident heads of states’ with their ‘hesitant scientific advisors.’