11th April 2025
Our expert
Caroline Sanderson
Caroline worked as a Waterstones bookseller, and as 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 July
Previews
Summertime and the reading is enticing
From food variety to post-lockdown, mind-clearing walks to global catastrophe, books hoving into view make for a mouth-watering summer
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etting all the reading done for the previews can sometimes be an intense and pres- sured process. I don’t
know how you do it, people tell me. And I don’t really know myself, except to say that I have probably watched about three hours of TV in total over the past month (although I have been to the thea- tre, more of which later). Often it is only when I emerge blinking from beneath my stack of proofs that I see connections between the books I’ve put on my highlights pile. I have only just realised that three of my most eagerly devoured titles this month
all concern food: whether dishes lovingly prepared in celebration of one’s heritage, as in Shahnaz Ahsan’s The Jackfruit Chronicles (HarperNorth); or cuisine repre- sentative of the diverse populations of Paris, as savoured in Moveable Feasts: Paris in Twenty Meals (Profile) by Chris Newens; or beans spilt about the colourful lives of the chefs who toil in our restaurant kitchens courtesy of Tart: Misadventures of an Anonymous Chef (Bloomsbury) by Slutty Cheff. Women on the move is also
a theme at the fore. I loved Wolf Moon: A Woman’s Journey into the Night (Sceptre), Arifa Akbar’s alluring exploration of night-time,
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