‘Miraculous’
Zadie Smith
‘Non-fiction will be different as a result’
Jonathan Freedland
Praise for Melting Point
‘Spectacularly successful’
Simon Schama
‘Astonishing… Melting Point possessed me entirely’
Devorah Baum
‘A truly radical book… fluid, fast-paced, hugely enjoyable’
Andrew Marr
‘Extraordinarily original… an enthralling book and a wonderful new writer’
Laura Cumming
‘Bristles into vivid, bustling life’
Robert Macfarlane
'So fascinating, so enjoyable, and beautifully told'
Simon Sebag Montefiore
‘An ambitious and high-risk venture. Yet Cockerell pulls it off with verve’
The Times
‘Exceptionally vivid and compelling…. One gets a thrilling sense of history unfolding in real time’
The Observer
‘A captivating exploration of identity and a search for belonging, a quest that reverberates into the present’
Financial Times
‘Stunning… a majestic blend of family memoir and grand, vaulting view of history’
Gabriel Pogrund, Sunday Times
Cockerell shows, doesn't tell, and the reader is left to consider how no family's story can be disentangled from history's complex web’
New Statesman
‘Formally ingenious... wonderfully vital and idiosyncratic, a model of how history writing can be made fresh’
The Guardian
Reviews for Melting Point
'Nothing less than an alternative history of the twentieth century'
DD Guttenplan, TLS
‘Fascinating and authoritative... unlike any other history book you will ever have read’
The Oldie
Rachel Cockerell
My first book, Melting Point, was published by Headline in Spring 2024.
It will be published in the US by Farrar, Straus & Giroux in Spring 2025.
rachelcockerell1@gmail.com
AGENT
UK: Sabhbh Curran at Curtis Brown
US: Alia Hanna Habib at The Gernert Company
PUBLICIST
joe.thomas@headline.co.uk
Author photo © Iona Wolff
Podcasts
Unholy - 15 March 2024
Little Atoms - 5 March 2024
Dan Snow’s History Hit - 15 April 2024
History Extra - 11 March 2024
Suzi’s Book Bag - 12 April 2024
Interviews
CNN - Amanpour 8 March 2024
Book Week - 10 March 2024
Jewish Chronicle - 28 February 2024
Tonight with Andrew Marr - 28 February 2024 (45:00)
New Mexico and Texas Jewish Historical Societies Joint Fall Conference
