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Catherine Elizabeth Moran ( KAT-lin mə-RAN; born 5 April 1975) is an English journalist, broadcaster, and author at The Times, where she writes two columns a week: one for the Saturday Magazine, and the satirical Friday column "Celebrity Watch". Moran was named British Press Awards (BPA) Columnist of the Year for 2010, and both BPA Critic of the Year 2011 and Interviewer of the Year 2011. In 2012, she was named Columnist of the Year by the London Press Club, and Culture Commentator at the Comment Awards in 2013. Early life Moran was born in Brighton, the eldest of eight children; she has four sisters and three brothers. She has described her father, who is of Irish extraction, as a "psychedelic rock pioneer" drummer who "did session work with many well-known bands in the Sixties" later "confined to the sofa by osteoarthritis". Moran lived in a three-bedroom council house in Wolverhampton with her parents and siblings, an experience she described as akin to The Hunger Games.Moran attended Springdale Junior School and was then educated at home from the age of 11, having attended Wolverhampton Girls' High School for only three weeks. She and her siblings received no formal education from their parents; the local council allowed this, as home education is legal in England. Moreover, according to Ms Moran, they were "the only hippies in Wolverhampton". The children frequently occupied their time with simple games, such as throwing mud at their house. Moran describes her childhood as happy, but revealed she left home as soon as she was able to do so at the age of 18. Journalism and writing career Throughout her adolescence, Moran was certain that she would pursue a career as a writer. At the age of 13 in October 1988 she won a Dillons young readers' contest for an essay on Why I Like Books and was awarded £250 of book tokens. At the age of 15, she won The Observer's Young Reporter of the Year. She began her career as a journalist for Melody Maker, the weekly music publication, at the age of 16. Moran also wrote a novel called The Chronicles of Narmo at the age of 16, inspired by having been part of a home-schooled family. In 1992, she launched her television career, hosting the Channel 4 music show Naked City, which ran for two series and featured a number of then up-and-coming British bands such as Blur, Manic Street Preachers and the Boo Radleys. Johnny Vaughan co-presented with her on Naked City. Moran's upbringing inspired her TV drama/comedy series, Raised by Wolves, which began airing in the UK on Channel 4 in December 2013.In July 2012, Moran became a Fellow of the University of Aberystwyth. In April 2014, she was named as one of Britain's most influential women in the BBC Woman's Hour power list 2014.Moran's semi-autobiographical novel, How to Build a Girl, is set in Wolverhampton in the early 1990s. It is the first of a planned trilogy, to be followed by How to Be Famous, and concluding with How To Change The World. Moran co-wrote the screenplay for the film adaptation of the same name alongside John Niven. She also served as an executive producer on the film, directed by Coky Giedroyc, and starring Beanie Feldstein, Alfie Allen, Paddy Considine and Sarah Solemani. Feminism Moran recalls becoming a feminist after reading The Female Eunuch as a child.In 2011, Ebury Press published Moran's book How to Be a Woman in the UK, which details her early life including her views on feminism. As of July 2012, it had sold over 400,000 copies in 16 countries. In September 2020 Ebury Press published its sequel, More Than a Woman, which explores middle age. Twitter In August 2013, she organised a 24-hour boycott of Twitter in protest against the organisation's perceived failure to deal adequately with offensive content posted, sometimes anonymously, on public figures' Twitter feeds.In 2014, her Twitter feed became a controversial addition to the list of English A-Level set texts. In June 2014 the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism reported she was the most influential British journalist on Twitter. Personal life In December 1999, Moran married The Times' rock critic Peter Paphides in Coventry; they have two daughters, born in 2001 and 2003. Awards and honours 2010 British Press Awards, Columnist of the Year 2011 Cosmopolitan, Ultimate Writer of the Year 2011 Irish Book Award, Listeners Choice category, How to Be A Woman 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards, Book of the Year, How to Be A Woman 2011 Galaxy National Book Awards, Popular Non-Fiction Book of the Year, How to Be A Woman 2011 British Press Awards, Interviewer of the Year 2011 British Press Awards, Critic of the Year 2012 Glamour Awards, Writer of the Year 2012 London Press Club, Columnist of the Year 2013 Comment Awards, Culture Commentator of the Year 2015 Glamour Awards, Columnist of the YearBibliography The Chronicles of Narmo How to Be a Woman Moranthology How to Build a Girl Moranifesto How to be Famous More Than a Woman What about men?References . Discover the Caitlin Moran popular books. Find the top 100 most popular Caitlin Moran books.

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  • Openhearted synopsis, comments

    Openhearted

    Ann Ingle

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    Glastonbury 50

    Emily Eavis & Michael Eavis

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    Elsewhere

    Rosita Boland

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    Records of Shelley, Byron and the Author

    Edward John Trelawny

    In February 1822 the writer and adventurer Edward John Trelawny arrived in Pisa to make the acquaintance of his heroes Shelley and Byron, leaving a broken marriage and an exotic se...

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    Anorexia

    Katie Metcalfe

    Katie Metcalfe takes readers through the daily struggle with this potentially lethal obsession. It is a harrowing account of her triumphs and tragedies on the long road to recovery...

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    A History of Masculinity

    Ivan Jablonka & Nathan Bracher

    'Exhilarating . . . a work of scholarship, but also inspiration. . . Go and read Jablonka and change the world' Christina Patterson, Sunday Times'An unexpected bestseller in Franc...

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    Strong Female Character

    Hanna Flint

    Leading film critic of her generation offers an unflinchingly honest and humorous account of her millennial journey towards selfacceptance through a cinematic lens.Hanna Flint spea...

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    What Fresh Hell

    Lucy Vine

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    Last Christmas

    Greg Wise & Emma Thompson

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    Urne-Burial

    Thomas Browne

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    Without Further Ado

    Jessica Dettmann

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    The Sound of Being Human

    Jude Rogers

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    Sanshiro

    Natsume Sōseki & Jay Rubin

    One of Soseki's most beloved works of fiction, the novel depicts the 23yearold Sanshiro leaving the sleepy countryside for the first time in his life to experience the constantly m...

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    Deeds Not Words

    Helen Pankhurst

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    Night Walks

    Charles Dickens

    Charles Dickens describes in Night Walks his time as an insomniac, when he decided to cure himself by walking through London in the small hours, and discovered homelessness, drunke...

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    Poor Little Sick Girls

    Ione Gamble

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    A Literary Review

    Søren Kierkegaard & Alastair Hannay

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    Access All Areas

    Barbara Charone

    First as a journalist and then a publicist at Warner Brothers Records for nearly twenty years, Barbara Charone has experienced, firsthand, the changes in the cultural landscape. Ac...

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    Nina is Not OK

    Shaparak Khorsandi

    Nina does not have a drinking problem. She likes a drink, sure. But what 17yearold doesn’t? Nina’s mum isn’t so sure. But she’s busy with her new husband and five year old Katie. A...

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    Shrill

    Lindy West

    Shrill is an uproarious memoir, a feminist rallying cry in a world that thinks gender politics are tedious and that women, especially feminists, can't be funny. Coming of age in a ...

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    Checkmate or Top Trumps

    Daniel Rey

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    How to Work Without Losing Your Mind

    Cate Sevilla

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    Strange Tricks

    Syd Moore

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    Don Juan

    Lord Byron, E. Steffan, T.G. Steffan & W.W. Pratt

    Byron's exuberant masterpiece tells of the adventures of Don Juan, beginning with his illicit love affair at the age of sixteen in his native Spain and his subsequent exile to Ital...

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    No One Tells You This

    Glynnis MacNicol

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    To Throw Away Unopened

    Viv Albertine

    SHORTLISTED FOR THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR AWARDS 2018What was I fighting for? Even now I'm not sure. Something so old and so deep, it has no words, no shape, no logic.Every memoir...

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    British Society Since 1945

    Arthur Marwick

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    Mad Girl

    Bryony Gordon

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    The Gender Games

    Juno Dawson

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    Glorious Rock Bottom

    Bryony Gordon

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    How to Be Second Best

    Jessica Dettmann

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    Birdwatchingwatching

    Alex Horne

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    The Book of the City of Ladies

    Christine Pizan

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    The Witches Are Coming

    Lindy West

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    Us Three

    Ruth Jones

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    Bonkers

    Jennifer Saunders

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    Asking For It

    Louise O'Neill

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    Impossible Things Before Breakfast

    Rebecca Front

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    On Murder, Mourning and Melancholia

    Sigmund Freud

    These works were written against a background of war and racism. Freud sought the sources of conflict in the deepest memories of humankind, finding clear continuities between our '...

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    Rage Becomes Her

    Soraya Chemaly

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    Hot Mess

    Lucy Vine

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    The Will to Change

    bell hooks

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    How to Start a Revolution

    Lucy-Anne Holmes

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