Caroline Sanderson

Caroline Sanderson is a writer and book journalist. She began her career as a Waterstones bookseller and then worked as a book publicist in publishing before becoming a freelance writer in 1997. She is Associate Editor of The Bookseller magazine, for which she has compiled the monthly New Titles previews of forthcoming non-fiction for the past 25 years. Caroline is the author of six non-fiction books of her own, including biographies of Jane Austen and the singer Adele. Her memoir – Listen With Father: How I Learned to Love Classical Music – was published in July 2025.

Programme Director of Stroud Book Festival in the Cotswolds town where she lives, Caroline also serves as an RLF Writing For Life Fellow and is currently supporting writing skills in the NHS as Writer-in-Residence across University Hospitals Tees. In 2024, Caroline was appointed Honorary President of the Society of Indexers. Find her on Substack – What to Read Now.

Caroline Sanderson is a non-fiction writer, book journalist and an RLF Writing for Life Fellow. She believes anyone can become more proficient at writing, and loves drawing on her own experience to help others become more confident writers. She particularly enjoys working with those who perhaps found writing challenging at school or university, and have shied away from it ever since.

Caroline’s first RLF post was as an RLF Fellow at the University of Worcester from 2017-19. She then progressed to leading writing skills workshops, primarily in healthcare and the NHS, working with Great Ormond Street Hospital and the Royal College of Nursing, among others.

From 2022-2024, Caroline was an RLF Writing for Life Fellow in residence at Somerset NHS Foundation Trust, supporting NHS staff with writing skills through online workshops and 1-1 sessions. Caroline is currently an RLF Writing for Life Fellow in residence at University Hospitals Tees, again supporting NHS staff with a wide variety of writing tasks. She has a particular interest in workplace-related academic writing, including nurturing the essay writing skills of Advanced Clinical Practitioners in training.