10th July 2026
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Caroline Sanderson
Caroline worked as a Waterstones bookseller and a book publicist before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. The Bookseller’s non- fiction previewer since 2000, she has judged numerous book prizes, including chairing the panel for the 2022 Baillie Gifford Prize for Non-Fiction. Programme director of Stroud Book Festival, Caroline is also a Royal Literary Fund Writing for Life fellow, supporting writing skills within the NHS.
New Titles: Non-fiction October
Previews
Talking heads: autumn promises newsworthy non-fiction
With titles from David Byrne and Judi Dench, October’s is a starry line-up – but there is more to enjoy beneath the showbiz glow
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ome might say non- fiction has it all to prove this autumn. So, eyes down for October and books that
might make us go “Bingo!” On the showbiz side, there is the excite- ment of a memoir from the peer- less Judi Dench – Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It? (Michael Joseph), and also from Michael Douglas (still untitled, Headline). Jeremy Clarkson is back with Diddly Squat: The GOAT (Michael Joseph), Kathleen Ryan returns with memoir number two – First Born Daughter (Blink), and Jasper Rees’s biography of the late Michael Gambon (Century). Hardy perennial authors
making welcome and bankable returns across the genres include Delia Smith (Canongate), though
not quite as you know her, Emily English (Seven Dials), Yuval Noah Harari (Cape), Martin Lewis (Allen Lane), Millie Marotta (Batsford), Rick Stein (BBC), Alex Ferguson (Macmillan), Katherine Rundell (Faber), James Norbury (Michael Joseph), Paul Theroux (Hamish Hamilton) and Caroline Hirons (HQ). Nibbies judge Hirons gets extra points from me for shouting “Fuck ’em” from the audience during this year’s The British Book Awards when it was declared on stage that Careless People author Sarah Wynn-Williams could not make an acceptance speech, on account of Meta’s injunction preventing the ex-Facebook employee from promoting her book. This pithy comment by a guru of skincare on freedom of speech
Books New Titles: Non-Fiction
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