Booker Prize winner Bernadine Evaristo says she believes people are turning to reading about pandemics as there is a need to "deepen our understanding of what's going on".
Sales of books about fictional epidemics have seen a huge surge during lockdown, a new survey has found, with some figures increasing by more than 1,000%.
In fact, more people are reading in general, with one in three saying they are turning to books more while we are stuck indoors due to the COVID-19 pandemic, according to the poll by The Reading Agency.
