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Caitlin Moran


(Catherine Elizabeth Moran)
UK flag (b.1975)

Caitlin Moran had literally no friends in 1990, and so had plenty of time to write her first novel, The Chronicles of Narmo, at the age of fifteen. At sixteen she joined music weekly, Melody Maker, and at eighteen briefly presented the pop show Naked City on Channel 4. Following this precocious start she then put in eighteen solid years as a columnist on The Times both as a TV critic and also in the most-read part of the paper, the satirical celebrity column Celebrity Watch - winning the British Press Awards Columnist of The Year award in 2010 and Critic and Interviewer of the Year in 2011.

The eldest of eight children, home-educated in a council house in Wolverhampton, Caitlin read lots of books about feminism mainly in an attempt to be able to prove to her brother, Eddie, that she was scientifically better than him. Caitlin isn't really her name. She was christened Catherine. But she saw Caitlin in a Jilly Cooper novel when she was 13 and thought it looked exciting. That's why she pronounces it incorrectly: Catlin. It causes trouble for everyone.
 

Genres: General Fiction
 
Novels
   The Chronicles Of Narmo (1992)
   How to Build a Girl (2012)
   How To Be Famous (2018)
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Caitlin Moran recommends
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You Are Here (2024)
David Nicholls
"I think it might be Nicholls' best book ever. He's somehow managed to remember exactly how people talk when they're falling in love, which is virtually impossible to do properly."
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Green Dot (2024)
Madeleine Gray
"I wolfed Green Dot down over two nights. An incredibly funny book about a woman having an affair that's a really bad idea. Every sentence sparkles."
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O Brother (2023)
John Niven
"A book whose genuine importance is only equalled by its sheer, visceral, compulsive readability."

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Anthologies containing stories by Caitlin Moran
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Dear NHS (2020)
100 Stories to Say Thank You
edited by
Adam Kay

Awards
British Book Award Book of the Year winner (2011) : How To Be a Woman
Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize for Comic Writing Best Novel nominee (2015) : How to Build a Girl


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