Caroline Sanderson

1 month ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Sanderson

In her acceptance speech after winning a BAFTA Best Actress Award for her lauded TV series I May Destroy You, actor and writer Michaela Coel dedicated her win to Ita O’Brien, saying: “Thank you for your existence in our industry, for making the space safe, for creating physical, emotional and professional boundaries so we can make work about exploitation, loss of respect, about abuse of power without being exploited or abused in the process.” O’Brien is described in her publisher biography as...

2 months ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Sanderson

Last autumn, I received an entirely unexpected invitation to become the Honorary President of the Society of Indexers. The surprise email from the Society’s then chair stated that my championing of non-fiction through The Bookseller, my experience of publishing my own non-fiction, and my work with literature festivals and book awards made me an "excellent candidate" for the role. Honoured, and not a little flattered, I accepted. And then quickly felt like a fraud.

2 months ago | thebookseller.com | Caroline Sanderson

“Books like rivers have watersheds. They don’t begin in one place but in countless places, and then they declare themselves visible.” As we sit in his book-lined room at Emmanuel College, Cambridge where he is professor of Literature and the Environmental Humanities, Robert Macfarlane is coining a fluid metaphor for the genesis of his captivating new non-fiction work: Is a River Alive?

Feb 28, 2025 | thebookseller.com | Caroline Sanderson

Outdoors in the winter sun of a crystalline February day, to a soundtrack of birds rehearsing their spring songs, I’m standing with hedgelayer Paul Lamb at a Somerset farm with glorious views of the Quantock Hills. The hawthorn hedge before us is newly planted, and Lamb has thinned it, pleached its stems and then staked and bound it with hazel to reinforce it.

Feb 21, 2025 | thebookseller.com | Caroline Sanderson

“It has come to the point where I can no longer do the kind of public work I have been doing as host of The Guilty Feminist podcast without coming out about the ways I believe our communities are being left behind and how we are hamstringing ourselves and each other.” So writes Deborah Frances-White in her latest book, Six Conversations We’re Scared to Have.