{"id":722,"date":"2026-02-26T11:52:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:52:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/student-life-and-guidance\/?p=722"},"modified":"2026-02-26T11:52:56","modified_gmt":"2026-02-26T11:52:56","slug":"world-book-day-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.canterbury.ac.uk\/student-life-and-guidance\/2026\/02\/26\/world-book-day-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"World Book Day 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

World Book Day is an annual charity event, designed to help\u00a0encourage reading as well as remove barriers to this,\u00a0i.e. due to cost. This is particularly relevant since\u00a02nd<\/sup>\u20136th<\/sup>\u00a0March is also National Student Money Week. You can check out our\u00a0previous\u00a0blog post on this\u00a0here<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

2026 is also the National Year of Reading, so this year, in particular, we would love to encourage you to read some non-course related material whenever you have the time to. To assist with this, we have compiled a list of self-help and wellbeing books as recommended by our very own KMMS staff! <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Happy Mind Happy Life: 10 Simple Ways to Feel Great Every Day by Dr Rangan Chatterjee<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by Stephanie Green, Head of Operations. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cHe’s a GP and looks at wellbeing and health really holistically, has a great podcast (Feel Better, Live More) and is just brilliant!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Why Has Nobody Told Me This Before? by Dr Julie Smith<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by Harri Burton, Course Assistant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cMore of a lengthy science based read. I found it very helpful, as there’s also worksheets that can be referred back to for \u2018poopy brain days\u2019 (my words).\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Atomic Habits by James Clear<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by Phil Naylor, Student Support Officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cVery clear and intuitive small (\u2018atomic\u2019) daily tweaks that are remarkably useful and not as overwhelming to implement as you might fear!\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Mindfulness. A Practical Guide to Finding Peace in a Frantic World by Danny Penman<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by the Student Life and Guidance team. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThis book helps to provide some simple yet powerful practices to apply to your day-to-day life to help break the cycle of anxiety, stress, unhappiness and exhaustion.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

We have a copy of this book in the SLG room, which you can borrow during your breaks in the Pears building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals by Oliver Burkeman<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by Kathy Meresz, Curriculum Coordinator. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cI can recommend this book so highly, not just for students, but really everyone. Basically it operates on the premise that life is short.  Assuming we live to be eighty (if we are very lucky) then we have about four thousand weeks. The book explores how to make the most of it. It\u2019s brutally honest and realistic and I found it to be a really refreshing way to look at time management.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by Phil Naylor, Student Support Officer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cAn anti-productivity book with the message that we can’t do everything, so embrace your limitations and focus on what actually matters. Time is something to experience not to use.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Notes on a Nervous Planet by Matt Haig; Reasons to Stay Alive by Matt Haig<\/em><\/strong> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Recommended by Harri Burton, Course Assistant. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

\u201cThese are a couple books I want to recommend, from the same author. They have really short paragraphs, and you can return to them whenever you need to.\u201d <\/p>\n\n\n\n

If this sounds interesting to you, then we have a copy of \u2018Reasons to Stay Alive\u2019 in the SLG room (next to reception in Pears), which you are more than welcome to borrow during your breaks in the Pears building. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Reading is a great tool to help improve your wellbeing, and these are just a few examples of some books which we believe you may find enjoyable. Kent also provides a\u00a0reading list<\/a>\u00a0with a collection of wellbeing and\u00a0self-help books that you may find interesting, many of which are available at the Templeman Library. If you have any recommendations, then please\u00a0let us know<\/a>! As\u00a0we would love to hear them and read them too and potentially feature them in a future blog post.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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