@carosanderson
Reader. Writer. Associate Editor & #nonfiction previewer @thebookseller.com. Royal Literary Fund Writing For Life Fellow. Honorary President @indexers.bsky.social. Also on Substack: "What to Read Now"
Spoke to fellow #nonfiction champion @jamesmcconnachie.bsky.social for today's @thetimes.com but I think I'm done commenting on The Salt Path now.
We need #nonfiction now more than ever and one unreliable book doesn't change that
Looking forward to chairing this discussion with Naomi Alderman and @mariannaspringbbc.bsky.social at @stroudbookfestival.bsky.social on November 8.
stroudbookfestival.org.uk/events/good-...
Coming up next week at Cheltenham Literature Festival on 13th Oct, authors @lilydunn.bsky.social & @carosanderson.bsky.social discuss the art of memoir, drawing on their own experience, and reflect on how memoirists are reinventing the form in bold ways:
Tickets for #CheltLitFest 2025 are on sale now!
Don't miss:
13/10 Into Being: Writing Memoir with @lilydunn.bsky.social & @carosanderson.bsky.social
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/into-...
14/10 The Spectre of Russia with Andrew Monaghan
www.cheltenhamfestivals.org/events/the-s... #booksky
Two weeks left to book for @indexers.bsky.social #SIConf25. With:
@carosanderson.bsky.social
@djbduncan.bsky.social
@tanyaizzard.bsky.social on AI
@closereadingie.bsky.social peer-review panel
@annkingdom.bsky.social and me on humour
plus more. Join us! #IndexSky
www.indexers.org.uk/conference-2...
Peasants
-anticipation of misfortune
#indexoftheweek
@indexers.bsky.social
No doubt in my mind about the most important books story in yesterday's @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Beyond The Salt Path. Essentially my response is to recommend more #nonfiction 📚
Delighted to have this week's @thebookseller cover for my interview with BBC Chief International Correspondent, the estimable Lyse Doucet
It's publication day! From the bottom of my heart, THANK YOU to everyone who has supported this book into being, and to the booksellers who are getting behind it now @unboundsocials.bsky.social
I've made a new list on @bookshop.org of books that explore nature / walking / the outdoors by disabled, neurodivergent and chronically ill writers - Nature Beyond Cure - aka our own narratives are messy and complex. Do share! #BookSky #DisabledWriters
uk.bookshop.org/lists/nature...?
Indeed. And my post only says that I find it confounding, not impossible. I just wish this horrible disease got a different kind of attention
Thank you so much!
We finish #SIConf25 Saturday with a panel discussion on working with authors, with panellists including authors and index enthusiasts @djbduncan.bsky.social and @carosanderson.bsky.social, followed by a series of lightning talks. Book at the earlybird rate until Mon 7 July at
Big thanks to @toppingsbath.bsky.social for inviting me to talk about my book "Jane Austen: Life of a Literary Titan" last night. Lovely appreciative audience too.
Three weeks to publication day and I couldn't be more thrilled with this quote from the wonderful @keggiec.bsky.social
Oh, interesting to know!
Thank you 💪🏻
"Kynance Cove". #IndexoftheWeek @indexers.bsky.social
Rhodesia/Zimbabwe
Delighted to have a piece in the new issue of @slightlyfoxed.bsky.social about one of my all-time favourite memoirs, "Don't Let's Go to the Dogs Tonight" by Alexandra Fuller
This week's What to Read New is this marvel by @adamweymouth.bsky.social
Amid the September proof deluge I am much looking forward to reading this by @annmorgan.bsky.social @renardpress.com
