CAROLINE SANDERSON began her career as a Waterstones bookseller, and later worked in publishing publicity before becoming a freelance writer and books journalist. Since 2000 she has compiled the monthly non-fiction previews for The Bookseller magazine, where she is Associate Editor. Programme Director of Stroud Book Festival, Caroline is also a Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow, supporting writing skills within the NHS. In 2024 she was appointed Honorary President of the Society of Indexers. Caroline is the author of six non-fiction books, most recently a memoir, Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music.

‘This delicious acorn of a book is as spare, elegant and to-the-point as the literary oak it describes.’

CAROLINE SANDERSON began her career as a Waterstones bookseller, and later worked in publishing publicity before becoming a freelance writer and books journalist. Since 2000 she has compiled the monthly non-fiction previews for The Bookseller magazine, where she is Associate Editor. Programme Director of Stroud Book Festival, Caroline is also a Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow, supporting writing skills within the NHS. In 2024 she was appointed Honorary President of the Society of Indexers. Caroline is the author of six non-fiction books, most recently a memoir, Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music.

‘This delicious acorn of a book is as spare, elegant and to-the-point as the literary oak it describes.’

CAROLINE SANDERSON began her career as a Waterstones bookseller, and later worked in publishing publicity before becoming a freelance writer and books journalist. Since 2000 she has compiled the monthly non-fiction previews for The Bookseller magazine, where she is Associate Editor. Programme Director of Stroud Book Festival, Caroline is also a Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow, supporting writing skills within the NHS. In 2024 she was appointed Honorary President of the Society of Indexers. Caroline is the author of six non-fiction books, most recently a memoir, Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music.

‘This delicious acorn of a book is as spare, elegant and to-the-point as the literary oak it describes.’