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The Times bestseller FT Book of the Year On 3 April
2020, Kate Bingham was told that the likelihood of any Covid-19
vaccine working was 15% at best. But on 8 December 2020, the first
NHS patient received a vaccine. Now nearly every adult in Britain
has had a jab, lockdowns have ended and we can finally live with
Covid. What lies behind this staggering success story? From a
cottage miles away from Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine
suppliers, Whitehall, the media circus – and her daughter’s
exams. Political manoeuvring, miscommunications and administrative
meddling nearly jeopardised the project. But perseverance paid off.
Catapulted into a national crisis, Bingham’s eclectic team
secured the first vaccine doses administered in the West and saved
thousands of lives in the UK as new variants struck. This is an
unmissable insider view into how the Vaccine Taskforce beat the
odds and delivered the scientific miracle we all waited for.
The Sunday Times bestseller On 3 April 2020, Kate Bingham was told
that the likelihood of any Covid-19 vaccine working was 15% at
best. But on 8 December 2020, the first NHS patient received a
vaccine. Now nearly every adult in Britain has had a jab, lockdowns
have ended and we can finally live with Covid. What lies behind
this staggering success story? From a cottage miles away from
Westminster, Bingham juggled vaccine suppliers, Whitehall, the
media circus - and her daughter's exams. Political manoeuvring,
miscommunications and administrative meddling nearly jeopardised
the project. But perseverance paid off. Catapulted into a national
crisis, Bingham's eclectic team secured the first vaccine doses
administered in the West and saved thousands of lives in the UK as
new variants struck. This is an unmissable insider view into how
the Vaccine Taskforce beat the odds and delivered the scientific
miracle we all waited for.
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Infragreen (Paperback)
Kate Bingham
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Perceptive, persuasive and intricately patterned, the poems of Kate
Bingham's third collection, Infragreen, take the reader on a
startling and intimate journey through everyday experiences and
phenomena. Her keen eye, reflectiveness and quiet wit endow her
subjects with a shimmering freshness. 'A revelation to me this year
was the work of Kate Bingham, whose second collection, Quicksand
Beach, shows a poet already in complete command of her voice and of
her form. Spry, witty, gently cynical, her talking lyrics about
love and domestic life are a pure pleasure to read; and she has a
breathtakingly acute ear. I read most of a sestina without even
noticing that it was a sestina. That's craft.' The Telegraph, books
of the year 2006 'Kate Bingham's Quicksand Beach, shortlisted for
the Forward Prize, offers an urgent interrogation of the ways in
which we love - as parents and children, husbands and wives. Her
command of form is enviable and her grasp of subject-matter
complete.' The Guardian 'Bingham has the unusual ability to write
convincingly and infectiously about happiness - the happiness of
family and parenthood.' Sunday Times 'There's something profoundly
English about these intelligent, technically accomplished poems:
understated, almost self-deprecating, but subtly rewarding.'
Financial Times, Picks of the Year 2006 'Her poetry possesses a
hushed power; a charm that creeps up on you, catching you
unawares.' Poetry Wales
"Quicksand Beach" will please fans of her fiction and of her first
book of poems, "Cohabitation". She has a beautifully poised natural
tone composed of intelligence and a slightly subversive sense of
humour, and captures her subjects with precision and grace. These
subjects are often domestic: family, friends, childhood memories,
visits, walks, meals...Childhood, both the author's and that of her
own children, features often. A schoolday 'craze' for fountain pens
prompts an affectionate memory of a younger self, watching 'the tip
of a new pen touch its first white sheet'. Bingham's work is both
subtle and accessible, a rare commodity in a poet. She can be
gentle, passionate, half-mocking and very funny.
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