Perhaps it's fitting on this Remembrance Day to post these remarks of the jury for the Mavis Gallant Prize for Non-Fiction for which my book Before We Forget: How Remembering Will Get Us Through the Next 75 Years was a finalist. Didn't win: that honour went to Natalie Doonan for Eating the Urban Wild, but the jury said this about Before We Forget:

Mary Soderstrom has gifted readers with a compelling investigation into memory and why it matters. In an age where AI promises to think for us and media and politicians attempt to erase and rewrite history, Soderstrom examines what we lose when we sacrifice learning from our own investigations and mistakes to the altar of preferred convenience. Her book is impeccably researched. It imagines how humans might survive our next seven to eight decades on a planet currently besieged by various crises, some of which we’ve seen before and might remember because history repeats! ...