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Rajiva Corona Virus Collection-by Prof. Rajiva Wijesinha After publishing well over half a dozen books in the period after coronavirus struck, Rajiva Wijesinha has now produced a much lighter volume, which is described as the first in what is defined as The Coronavirus Collection. As this book suggests, they are short studies of different interests, in this case, both books and places. The immediate motivation is sketched at the start of the volume when the writer says, ‘Nostalgia is always fun, and in this t ime of coronavirus, it seems not an indulgence but a necessity. What else can one do but sink into the past when the future seems to have stopped?’ (Ref: The Island Paper, Sri Lanka) Having produced two books about travel, the writer moves to another great pleasure in his life and talks briefly about forty or so books, including the works of Shakespeare and Byron. ...