Introducing September's book of the month

A good book can deepen the way you think. But a great book? It changes the way you see.

And that's why I'm excited to reveal that September's book of the month is Nicola Twilley's Frostbite: How Refrigeration Changed Our Food, Our Planet and Ourselves.

In it, we follow the radical changes in the way we eat and live thanks to the development of the cold chain—all those fridges and freezers that fill our stores, restaurants, warehouses… and our homes.

After reading it I saw the world differently: every visit to the supermarket showed me a vista of of interconnected systems; every rummage in the kitchen for dinner offered me a parade of precisely-engineered products. Even the fruit bowl became a set of interwoven stories.

Through it all, Nicola manages to combine history, science and food to show us something new about modern life, with detailed, lively tales that give you a sense of constant discovery and revelation.

If that's enough to convince you to sign up for the club, then just click here and I'll send a copy out to you straight away. Each month you’ll get a brand new, hand-picked, mind-expanding non-fiction hardback to your door for less than retail price—supporting fantastic authors and making you smarter at the same time.

One other benefit is that we get authors to join us for conversations about their books, offering you a chance to hear straight from them about the ideas they’ve written about—and ask questions for yourself.

We're lucky that Nicola will be joining us on Monday September 30 for an exclusive live Q&A session with Curious Reading Club members to discuss the book, so if you like Frostbite as much as I did, I would love if you could take the time to join us for an intimate chat. I’ll send reminders and calendar invites closer to the time.

Onward!

Bobbie