On graduating, Baum worked as a writer and researcher for
Time-Life Books on a 29-volume series of cook books called
The Good Cook, before moving to the BBC, where she worked with
Michael Parkinson and later worked for
London Weekend Television on
The South Bank Show. She moved with her then-partner to Australia in 1985 and was married soon afterwards. Baum was the founding editor of
Good Reading magazine and worked as features editor for the Australian edition of
Vogue. She was also the long-term presenter of the
ABCTV book program
Between the Lines until the program ended in 1998 and worked as an executive producer with
ABC Radio National. In 1995, Baum took leave from the ABC, working as a researcher / producer on
The World on a Plate, a history of food around the world and in 2006, produced and co-wrote her first TV documentary, about Australian writer
Arthur Upfield, shown on SBS TV. Until recently Baum was editorial director of
Booktopia, Australia's largest online bookseller. She curates and hosts talks, blogging for arts organisations, and providing media consultancy. She has also designed a collection of rugs based on her photographic images for Designer Rugs. In 2018 Baum was Reader in Residence at the
State Library of New South Wales. Caroline's first book,
Only: A Singular Memoir, was published in March 2017. It is the story of her unconventional childhood and explores what it means to be an
only child—as both child and adult. Also what it means to be the daughter of two people damaged by trauma and tragedy, particularly a domineering and explosive father. Secrets are revealed and differences settled. ==Bibliography==