Books by Julia Hobsbawm
“A crisis can also be an opportunity, and one of the notable effects of being forced to work from home during the global pandemic has been to shine the spotlight on whether working in an office every day of the week is something we want or indeed need—and if it’s not, to make sure we don’t go back to how things were before. This is something Julia Hobsbawm has been looking at as Chair of the Demos Workshift Commission. As she pointed out on taking charge, ‘Covid presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to shift the dial on the manifest problems around working life.’ The book promises to be an important contribution at a pivotal moment.” Read more...
Notable Nonfiction of Early 2022
Sophie Roell, Journalist
Interviews where books by Julia Hobsbawm were recommended
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The Last Emperor of Mexico
by Edward Shawcross -
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Stalin's Library: A Dictator and his Books
by Geoffrey Roberts -
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Atomic Steppe: How Kazakhstan Gave Up the Bomb
by Togzhan Kassenova -
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This Mortal Coil: A History of Death
by Andrew Doig -
5
The Nowhere Office: Reinventing Work and the Workplace of the Future
by Julia Hobsbawm
Notable Nonfiction of Early 2022, recommended by Sophie Roell
Notable Nonfiction of Early 2022, recommended by Sophie Roell
Even though we’re still in the first couple of months of 2022, there are already lots of really interesting nonfiction books either out or just about to be published. Five Books editor Sophie Roell surveys the flood of books that cover everything from Neolithic archaeology to the latest insights of neuroscience and genetics, as well as books that explore where we work, what we feel, and how we die.
