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<strong> As a lifelong bibliophile, I have often relied upon books to buoy me through difficult times.</strong> Since March 2020, when the pandemic first began to alter all that we knew and loved,<strong> books have been my passport to safely visit people and places without mask, worry or guilt.</strong> I have walked the streets of Paris with Chief Inspector Gamache in Louise Penny’s All the Devils Are Here, found myself quaking in a remote mountain estate in Silvia Moreno-Garcia’s creepy Mexican Gothic and assisted in solving assorted mysteries confronting a Kent retirement village in Richard Osman’s The Thursday Murder Club. Fredrik Backman transported me to a small town in Sweden in his heartwarming Anxious People, Marjan Kamali invited me to 1950s Tehran in The Stationery Shop, and Lucy Foley introduced me to a dubious cast of characters gathered on a fictional island off Connemara in The Guest List. <strong> Even a deadly pandemic cannot restrict travel by book nor discourage the awakening of imagination through literature.</strong>