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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

New headteacher at my husband's school has axed Media Studies A-level, one of the most popular subjects. I heard @IanDunt comment recently that all kids should study it so they can bring a critical faculty to what is reported and by whom. I couldn't agree more

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Remembering my brother Richard who died in 1991 on his birthday today. I'm still never an only child

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

A bedspread of non-fiction I recommend you read in the first quarter of 2022

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

My brother Richard - my only sibling who died in 1991 - would have been 55 today. A sense of loss has long been part of who I am but I have happy, sandy memories too 🤍

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

Woman comes up to me in Waitrose: "You look like you'll know. What kind of pastry do I need to make a quiche?". And there was me thinking I exuded an entirely different kind of vibe 😕

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

I've long said that we need a @WomensPrize for Non-Fiction

Prof. Pragya Agarwal

@DrPragyaAgarwal

2 years

Non-fiction as a category is so dominated by men (esp in popular science). I recently did an informal survey in bookshops up in Merseyside/NW & almost 100% of books displayed & on tables were from men. This ofc has an effect on who is bought & read & thereby status bias.

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

This is utterly thrilling for me. A career highlight

Baillie Gifford Prize

@BGPrize

2 years

We are delighted to announce the judging panel for the #BGPrize2022 . This year, our longlist, shortlist and winner will be decided by @CaroSanderson , @CliveMyrieBBC , @georginagodwin , @lfspinney , @samanth_s and @MsRachelCooke . Read more here: #nonfiction

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

People often comment on the crochet blanket I photograph my books on, so here's a pic of my reading sofa & blanket collection (we have a cold house!). All from charity shops when they were still cheap. As were the cushions, apart from the middle one, made for me by my BF

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

It's always time to read more non-fiction & poetry so here's my @thebookseller choice of books publishing in March

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

I'm Caroline, I'm menopausal & I run slower than I used to. But I create stuff better. Today, with the help of @drnighatarif , @thebookseller launches its first ever survey of attitudes to & experiences of the menopause years in the book trade. Please RT and complete

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

This is excellent, of course; but why do we always think fiction when we think debut? I'd love to see an equivalent annual feature shouting about outstanding first non-fiction books. I know they exist!

Observer New Review

@ObsNewReview

4 years

Introducing our 10 best debut novelists of 2021 @CalebANelson Sam Riviere @mmegannolan Natasha Brown @abigailsdean Will Burns @rebeccawhatsun @ThoroughlyThorp Ailsa McFarlane Melody Razak

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

Daughter reports by text on first online English lecture at uni. Apparently when asked why they wanted to study English, one student pipes up: "So I can be like Connell in 'Normal People'".

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

I'm overjoyed to announce that my book, "Listen With Father" has launched @unbounders . It's a memoir of my Dad, evoked through the classical music he cherished. More here

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

11 months

Meet the new kitten. Or perhaps she's a parrot

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

So I wrote this little reflection on my two decades of previewing non-fiction for @thebookseller

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

10 months

Ten years ago today I said goodbye to my beloved Dad. He taught me to listen, to be curious & to ask good questions. And that being fair matters. I think of him every day. Love to everyone missing someone this Christmas

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

The first ever @thebookseller #menpausefocus is out tomorrow, and we menopausal women in the book business - peri-, post- & everything in between - have plenty to say for ourselves

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

A reminder to please be patient and smiley with supermarket workers at this time. Here's my keyworker daughter @JuliaBrookes7 , v much missing @UniversityLeeds but studying hard & delivery driving for Waitrose in the meantime

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Saturday cheer

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Big ❤️ to the @BookStroud team for giving me time off to see my son graduate from @Hartpury at Gloucester Cathedral today (BSc Hons 1st class)

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

My @thebookseller non-fiction Editor's Choices in my bumper May preview are books by @JenniferLAllan @bairdjulia @AlisonBechdel @OwenEastwood @anyahindmarch @parislees @holliepoetry @Longshanks1307 @MichalOshman @axrenton @merielschindler & Frances Wilson

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

It's my birthday today so I went bird-watching @WWTSlimbridge . Always happy when next to Sabrina

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

April non-fiction reading pile. Never off duty, my friends @thebookseller #amreading

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

Last night, after presenting the BBC Six o'clock News, @CliveMyrieBBC chatted to me about his forthcoming memoir @HodderBooks for @thebookseller . Read all about it in next week's issue

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

I don't tweet much family stuff but 18 years ago today, I had just given birth to the baby who turned into this fabulous young woman

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

11 months

I'm on @BBCFrontRow tonight, talking about some of my non-fiction highlights of 2023, in the fine company of @thestephmerritt @johnmitchinson

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Thank you so much for having me @BGPrize . I've enjoyed every minute

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

Had the best time on the Thames foreshore with @LondonMudlark yesterday. Among the finds: shards of Roman, Saxon (possibly) & medieval pottery; handmade pins & nails; a marble; & clay pipes. All foraged from the surface: no digging. More in our interview soon @thebookseller

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

In remembrance of my beloved Dad, Peter Darrell Sanderson. 4.7.34 - 15.12.13. Missed every day.

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

6 years

In the ongoing cause of finding good homes for books I am kindly sent for nothing, I now have a Wee Free Library on the wall in front of my house. Thank you to @DebbieYoungBN and her handy, recycling husband for helping to make it happen @LtlFreeLibrary #Stroud

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

Unexpectedly moved by this week's @thebookseller cover. One of my earliest memories is having this first Mog read aloud to me by our village librarian. I think my reading journey began right there

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Out today @thebookseller , my non-fiction Editor's Choices for March 2023 are books by Ghaith Abdul Ahad @RomaTheEngineer @_F_B_G_ @rifish Katherine May @AasmahMir @jonsnowC4 @glosswitch @RSmythFreelance & @saradwheeler

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

May non-fiction preview @thebookseller is a wrap. No more May submissions, please. Open to June's glories from next week 😌

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

7 months

So I wandered into delightful @BookCornerHX in the Halifax Piece Hall and ran into @BenMyers1 author of the novel am currently reading #cuddy #bookworldserendipity

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

My non-fiction @thebookseller Editor's Choices for April are books by @jimalkhalili @WriterHannahBT @susancain @LulahEllender @DeliaEphron @mukasonga @Chitgrrl @katherinerun Katherine Rundell @sophiasgaler Ocean Vuong

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Starting on my most-anticipated #nonfiction read for August @KitdeWaal @TinderPress

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

9 months

On Saturday I went to visit a lovely friend who is in hospital in the wake of a horrible cancer diagnosis. Today my timeline is full of people moaning about the length of January. You're lucky to be able to wish it away, my friends

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

My #NibbiesShoutout goes to all the publicists in publishing who have done an incredible job helping to give books such a high profile in very difficult circumstances over the past year

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

I have worked from home for 23 years, and can confirm that I still swear daily at my printer; get distracted by social media on the hour, every hour; sneak a chocolate fix mid-afternoon; and fail utterly in keeping my work space in any kind of order

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Gladrags gathered and off to London for #BGPrize2022 presentation tonight. Wish me luck!

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

8 months

My #nonfiction @thebookseller Editor's choices for May are books by @edentravels Richard Flanagan @doctor_benji @corinne_fowler Orlando Whitfield @tiffanymurray Tom de Freston @OrRosenboim @helenmolesworth @ellen_atlanta

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

My @thebookseller interview with @katemosse about the proposed @WomensPrize for #nonfiction . Joyous news on which to end the week

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

THANK YOU to everyone who has contributed so brilliantly to the first ever @thebookseller #menopausefocus , out today - @Laurenrbrown95 @alicesmellie @KatRoden @DrPragyaAgarwal @mariellaf1 @Healthyhappy50 @ThisisDavina . And our two anon op ed writers who know who they are

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

My daughter worked an early shift at Waitrose today (got up at 5.30am) and is once again horrified at how rude some people can be to shop staff, esp faced with the appalling prospect of having to queue for a short while. If it was me, I'd arrange people in courtesy order

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

6 months

When you're a book festival programmer and you don't do spreadsheets @bookstroud

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

My @thebookseller #nonfiction Editor's Choices for June are books by @TimBlackburn66 @octaviabright_ @PaulBurston @Dannythefink @olifranklin @katieholten @svpercy @beckorio @pollytoynbee & Catherine Joy White

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

Always a thrill when an interview of mine makes the cover of @thebookseller : today it's my author profile of the all kinds of admirable @anitasethi @ibelong_here @BloomsburyBooks

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

Excellent news, of course. My only gripe - why do debut awards always have to be for fiction? #nonfiction authors are debutantes too

The Bookseller

@thebookseller

1 year

Caffè Nero has launched @nerobookawards , a major new book award with four categories to celebrate the best writing from across the UK and Ireland. Read here:

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

My March 2022 non-fiction Editor's Choices in @thebookseller today are by @MargaretAtwood @mslucycooke @Lilydunnwriter @LucyGoBag @drmatthewgreen @amy_may @HelenMort @cloverstroud

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

6 years

And I'm thrilled to announce that I'm going to be @bookstroud Artistic Director

Stroud Book Festival

@BookStroud

6 years

Drum roll…! Thrilled to announce the 2018 Stroud Book Festival will be held 7 – 11 November 2018.

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

On my way to #BritishBookAwards and thinking of wearing my gold Superdrys instead of the glam but punishing heels I had planned #nibbieswhattowear

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Working in South Somerset today, so made a quick hop over the county border to experience the delights of @LittleToller HQ & lunch with the phenomenal Gracie Cooper (hiding behind the door in the photo)

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

In a bit, I'll be talking about book sharing during lockdown with @annakingradio @BBCGlos . In the meantime, here's a picture of my own freshly stocked Wee Free Library

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Delighted to open my Waitrose Weekend and see this. The news is spreading!

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

This by @DeborahJaneOrr is extraordinary, from the astonishingly appropriate title onwards @wnbooks

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

Dreich it may be but these blooms from my garden remind me summer isn't quite over

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

My #nonfiction @thebookseller Book of the Month for September is this by @CliveMyrieBBC - a reflection on the major stories on which he has reported, and a heartfelt tribute to the Windrush Generation of which his parents were part @HodderBooks

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

V pleased with my Bank Holiday charity shop find - a vintage West German vase which looks fab with long stemmed alstroemerias in it

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

Every writer depends on freedom of speech and conscience. So if we writers cease to promote debate without hate, then we are in dark days indeed

Amanda Craig

@AmandaPCraig

4 years

People like Debbie Taylor @Mslexia fail to understand this: if you are a writer, editor, publisher your first duty is to uphold the 4th Estate, which means freedom of speech and conscience. Shame on them, and all bullies. @englishpen wake up!

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

6 months

All the beautiful posts for #nationalsiblingsday @Sibs_uk are melting my heart. So here's my much-missed brother Richard...funny, kind, demon bowler, and a goldmine of sports stats

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

So this, my friends, is my April reading pile which has to be dispatched over Christmas. For one time only, all publisher bribes accepted ☃️🌲🍷🥂🍾

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

My @thebookseller Book of the Month for September is "What We Owe the Future" by @willmacaskill @OneworldNews . Reading it is like putting a pair of high-magnification binoculars to our myopic, short-term mindset

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

Belatedly gobsmacked by this impossible piece of advice from the otherwise excellent @GdnSaturday interiors special

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

My @thebookseller Book of the Month for April is this by @anitasethi , a shining example of how books can be an act of resistance and reclamation, and a force for good.

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

Publishers who specialise in translated books - I love you sending me these for my @thebookseller previews, but not so much when you don't name the translator. Don't you think it's more important than ever that you do so?

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

6 months

A joy to have a pub date - 3.7.25 - for my memoir "Listen With Father" @unbound . So grateful to everyone who has supported it thus far: also available for pre-order here: . Now here's a photo of my Dad mowing the lawn in 1963

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

My epic October non-fiction preview is a wrap - you can read it in next week's @thebookseller . Meanwhile I'm off to lie down in a darkened room #IWish

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

Lovely publishers. Please do credit us by name when you retweet the words of me & my esteemed fellow @thebookseller previewers @aliceokbooks @fionanoblebooks & @alisonflood . We're working particularly long & hard to read, & write love for your books atm

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

Today would have been my Dad's 89th birthday. We take photos all the time without thinking how precious they might one day become

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

My @thebookseller Editor's Choices for July are books by @Iain_MacGregor1 @ali_l_millar @mattrowlandhill @irasroom @malachytallack Markiyan Kamysh @angela_hui @seanehewitt @angelas_talks & Juno Roche #nonfiction

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

Guess Who I've been chatting to today? You can read my interview with Christopher Eccleston about his forthcoming memoir "I Love the Bones of You" @simonschusterUK in next week's @thebookseller

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

Orfeo, Labyrinth, Wine-Eyed Jill, Evelyn & Creme de Cognac

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

New #nonfiction I recommend you get your hands on during the first third of 2023

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

Synergy. Today, the swifts are back over Stroud. Tomorrow, my August non-fiction Book of the Month in @thebookseller is this from @HelenJMacdonald @JonathanCape

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Honoured to be this year's chair of judges - congratulations to all 12 shortlisted authors & publishers

Baillie Gifford Prize

@BGPrize

2 years

We are delighted to announce the #BGPrize2022 longlist. Read more here: #longlist #nonfiction

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

Paperback fiction, plus reading sofa #ShowUsYourShelves

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

The post has come and my day has been made. Thank you, thank you @CatRentzenbrink and @picadorbooks

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

Without the help of my daughter - 19 yo today - I wouldn't have been able to predict this would be a bestseller @thebookseller . So I gave it to her for her birthday...for making me look clever @Octopus_Books @kieraobrien

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

10 months

Happy New Year! Some #nonfiction I recommend for the first quarter of your 2024 reading

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

My #nonfiction Editor's Choices for July in today's @thebookseller are books by @brixtonbard Alex South @SallyBayley1 @LaurenElkin William Henry Searle @pwhitakerwriter @pollyrowena & (not pictured) @parfitt_tom

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

7 months

Yay!! @LauraCummingArt won the #NonFiction @WritersPrize for "Thunderclap" @ChattoBooks . Wonderful recognition for a wonderful book

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

My brilliant & creative undergrad daughter has had her 9 month placement year cancelled at FOUR days notice by a #Leeds comms agency. Anyone in that city/business want to take her on? You'll be doing yourself a favour RT

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

My non-fiction Editor's Choices for May in today's @thebookseller are books by William Atkins, @WaspWoman Russell Foster @lindakinstler Camille Kouchner @SabrinaMahfouz Abi Morgan & Ella Risbridger

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

9 months

My @thebookseller #nonfiction preview for May is a wrap. And what a reading pile of quality this was

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

Whatever my daughter gets in her A-level results tomorrow, I'm honestly more proud that she reads books like this when she doesn't have to

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Tonight, I have the honour - and sheer joy - of chatting to those two genius authors, Meg Mason & @ninastibbe @ToppingsBath

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

5 years

Daughter who works at Waitrose just home after exhausting 7 hour shift fielding phone calls from people berating her about the delay on online orders. Supermarket employees are in the frontline right now: be gentle

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

Charming, and utterly exquisite bank holiday reading from @RobGMacfarlane and @JackieMorrisArt . Feast your eyes on those endpapers too! Thank you, @HamishH1931

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

7 months

My mum, nearly 90 and still game for a knickerbocker glory

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

6 years

@AmandaPCraig Absolutely agree. Just adding a shout-out to all the wonderful primary school teachers and librarians out there who work especially hard to make sure that children learn to love reading in spite of it

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

So my new glam rock boots nearly crippled me, but what a night. And what a winner! #BGPrize2022

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

1 year

So grateful for this endorsement for a mad escapade me & some talented mates organise on a shoestring round my kitchen table with our fingers crossed

Stroud Book Festival

@BookStroud

1 year

“Stroud Book Festival is one of the best in the country - intimate, stimulating & fun” Ian McEwan We are thrilled 🥳🍾to announce that the 2023 #StroudBookFestival programme is now✨live!✨ Check out our stellar line up👇 Tickets on sale Fri 8th Sept🗓️

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

My November non-fiction Book of the Month is this remarkable & rallying book by Nobel Peace Prize winner @mariaressa which exhorts us to “wake up and hold the line” before it’s too late @wh_allen

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

3 years

#nonfiction to read in April: my colourful array of @thebookseller Editor's Choices by @LulahEllender @Mukasonga @DeliaEphron @Chitgrrl @WriterHannahBT @jimalkhalili Ocean Vuong @sophiasgaler Katherine Rundell

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

4 years

And it has a book festival too, what's more 😆📚 @bookstroud #stroud

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Bit of a reading break after all the @BGPrize action? Not with this towering @thebookseller reading pile for March 😳

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

Such a joy to share a stage with these beautiful brothers @cheltlifest . And books were sold! @ManniCoeWrites @LittleToller

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Caroline Sanderson

@CaroSanderson

2 years

This much-anticipated memoir by @natashacarthew @CoronetBooks is exceeding my already high expectations. Beautiful, lyrical writing, even when tackling difficult issues head-on