Best Selling Books by Caitlin Moran

'Happiness is a thing that must be done over and over and over again. Like laundry. And sex. It's not a thing you are - it's a thing you do.' Not getting enough sleep, doomscrolling on your phone, and feeling acid anxiety every time you watch the news? You're not alone. One morning, Caitlin Moran lay in bed and realised: she had finally reached Peak Despair. The point where, in books and movies, the heroine decides to move to a remote farmhouse, walk an ancient, 600-mile pathway, or adopt a baby hare. The moment where someone goes on a quest to find ... hope. But this, this is not that kind of book. Caitlin tried -- but it turns out remote Welsh farmhouses are really expensive. No-one with a job can walk 600 miles. And it's incredibly hard to get access to baby hares in Crouch End. And so, Caitlin decides instead to go on a domestic quest. To see if you can stay in the same house, in the same neighbourhood, but feel better about the frantic modern world by trying to make better days. Leaving social media, eschewing 24/7 news for local newspapers, sitting on buses without headphones, and listening to what people are really saying. Picking litter, donating blood, rewilding a garden and, the hardest thing of all -- learning to fall back in love with the world again. Over the course of a year, Caitlin finds that life can be radically transformed when you rebel against the news cycle and algorithms that want to keep us angry, adrenalised, and anxious. You can't change the world -- but you can change your days. And, once you've changed your days, maybe you could change the world. Just a little bit. Being hopeful is a decision. How To Be Hopeful is the diary of how one person made that change.

Fifteen-year-old Morag Narmo really doesn't want to go to school any more. She and her siblings would rather feed their heads into the waste-disposal unit than "do the academical". So they are all stunned when their parents whisk them out of school and embark on a home-schooling experiment. But with five children, two unruly pets and some extremely eccentric attitudes, the educational experiment soon descends into chaos... Witty, razor-sharp and laugh-out-loud funny, The Chronicles of Narmo show us how before Caitlin Moran knew How to be a Woman, she had to find out How to be a Girl.

'A must-read eye-opener that makes you laugh, cry, get angry and get happy on every page. It's magnificent' Bob Mortimer All the statistics agree: there has never been a more difficult time to be a teenage boy. And, therefore, there has never been a more difficult time to be the parent of a teenage boy. Failing in education; facing a hopeless jobs market; getting their sexual education from violent pornography; and being endlessly targeted by online influencers who, yes, tell them to make their beds, and go to the gym - but also push dodgy cryptocurrency schemes, and think the best place for a woman is ‘working in a Romanian sex-dungeon’. What About Men? opens with a group of angry teenage boys claiming feminism has ‘gone too far’, and asks: what do boys actually mean when they say that? Are all angry boys, underneath everything, scared? What happens when your son becomes a fan of Andrew Tate? And why do one-in-ten gym-going boys say they’ve felt ‘suicidal’ about their bodies? Having spent a decade writing about women, girls, and their problems, Caitlin Moran found that, in reality, boys and girls have more in common than they think. Women have spent decades trying to feel better about their bodies; trying to find positive role-models; and feeling angry, and scared, about their place in the world. If feminism has ‘gone too far’ is it because we have started to solve these problems? And, if so, what can boys, and men, learn from this? Both laugh-out-loud funny and devastatingly truthful, What About Men? is the essential handbook on 21st century masculinity: the birth-to-death guide on how to help boys rebel against anger, cynicism, misogyny and despair, and find the joy in being a boy.

The author of "How to Be a Woman" presents a humorous confessional memoir that reflects on the lighter side of the patriarchy while exploring topics ranging from middle age, parenting, and marriage to feminism and existential crises.

A hilarious yet deeply moving coming-of-age novel from New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran, “the U.K.’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) What do you do in your teenage years when you realize what your parents taught you wasn’t enough? You must go out and find books and poetry and pop songs and bad heroes—and build yourself. It’s 1990. Johanna Morrigan, fourteen, has shamed herself so badly on local TV that she decides that there’s no point in being Johanna anymore and reinvents herself as Dolly Wilde—fast-talking, hard-drinking Gothic hero and full-time Lady Sex Adventurer! She will save her poverty-stricken Bohemian family by becoming a writer—like Jo in Little Women, or the Bröntes—but without the dying young bit. By sixteen, she’s smoking cigarettes, getting drunk and working for a music paper. She’s writing pornographic letters to rock stars, having all kinds of sex with all kinds of men and eviscerating bands in reviews of 600 words or less. But what happens when Johanna realizes she’s built Dolly with a fatal flaw? Is a box full of records, a wall full of posters and a head full of paperbacks enough to build a girl after all? Imagine The Bell Jar—written by Rizzo from Grease. How to Build a Girl is a funny, poignant and heartbreakingly evocative story of self-discovery and invention, as only Caitlin Moran could tell it.

Listen to the brand new dramatisation of How To Be a Woman, narrated by Caitlin herself, as part of BBC Radio 4's Riot Girls season Selected by Emma Watson for her feminist book club ‘Our Shared Shelf’ It's a good time to be a woman: we have the vote and the Pill, and we haven't been burnt as witches since 1727. However, a few nagging questions do remain... Why are we supposed to get Brazilians? Should we use Botox? Do men secretly hate us? And why does everyone ask you when you're going to have a baby? Part memoir, part rant, Caitlin answers the questions that every modern woman is asking.

The follow up to her bestselling breakout hit How to Be a Woman, Moranthology is a hilarious, insightful collection of Moran’s London Times columns that confirms her status as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one.” (Marie Claire) Possibly the only drawback about the bestselling How to Be a Woman was that its author, Caitlin Moran, was limited to pretty much one subject: being a woman. Moranthology is proof that Caitlin can actually be “quite chatty” about many other things, including cultural, social and political issues that are usually the province of learned professors, or hot-shot wonks—and not of a woman who once, as an experiment, put a wasp in a jar, and got it stoned. Here you’ll find Caitlin ruminating on—and sometimes interviewing—subjects as varied as caffeine, Keith Richards, Ghostbusters, Twitter, the welfare state, the royal wedding, Lady Gaga, and her own mortality, to name just a few. With her “brilliant, original voice” (Publishers Weekly), Caitlin brings insight and humor to everything she writes.

From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman and Moranthology comes a collection of Caitlin Moran’s award-winning London Times columns that takes a clever, hilarious look at celebrities, society, and the wacky world we live in today—including three major new pieces exclusive to this book. When Caitlin Moran sat down to choose her favorite pieces for her new book, she realized that they all shared a common theme—the same old problems and the same old ass-hats. Then she thought of the word ‘Moranifesto’, and she knew what she had to do... Introducing every piece and weaving her writing together into a brilliant, seamless narrative—just as she did in Moranthology—Caitlin combines the best of her recent columns with lots of new writing unique to this book as she offers a characteristically fun and witty look at the news, celebrity culture, and society. Featuring strong and important pieces on poverty, the media, and class, Moranifesto also focuses on how socially engaged we’ve become as a society. And of course, Caitlin is never afraid to address the big issues, such as Benedict Cumberbatch and duffel coats. Who else but Caitlin Moran—a true modern Renaissance woman—could deal with topics as pressing and diverse as the beauty of musicals, affordable housing, Daft Punk, and why the Internet is like a drunken toddler? Covering everything from Hillary Clinton to UTIs, Caitlin’s manifesto is an engaging and mischievous rallying call for our times. In her unapologetic Moranifesto, Caitlin Moran tackles the absurd and the essential with her signature working-class voice: Political Commentary for Normal People: From Margaret Thatcher’s legacy to the Syrian refugee crisis, Moran applies her hilarious, no-bullshit logic to the issues we’re told are too complicated for us. Celebrity Culture: Why we must defend hipsters, what it’s like getting drunk with Benedict Cumberbatch, and a deep dive into the unifying power of David Bowie. Modern Feminism: Tackling everything from high heels and UTIs to abortion rights and online harassment with the raw honesty that made How to Be a Woman a global phenomenon. The Absurdity of Everyday Life: Discover why printers are evil, the life-altering importance of bacon, and why the internet is basically a drunken toddler.

A Library Journal Best Book of 2018 “Who better than Caitlin Moran to bring fame down to earth with a bump?” —Helen Fielding, bestselling author of Bridget Jones's Diary. From the New York Times bestselling author of How to Be a Woman—a hilarious, exhilarating novel about a young woman making it in a world where men hold all the power. Johanna Morrigan (aka Dolly Wilde) has it all: she is nineteen, lives in her own flat in London, and writes for the coolest music magazine in Britain. Her star is rising, just not quickly enough for her liking. Then John Kite, Johanna’s unrequited love, has an album go to number one. Suddenly John exists on another plane of reality: that of the Famouses, a world of rabid fans and VIP access. Johanna lacks the traditional trappings of fame (famous parents, mind-scorching hotness, exotic scandals, etc.), so she does the only thing a self-respecting Lady Sex Adventurer can do. She starts a magazine column critiquing the lives and follies of the Famouses around her. But as Johanna skyrockets to fame herself, she begins to realize that with celebrity comes sacrifice, and hers may mean giving up the one person she was determined to keep. For anyone who has been a girl or known one, who has admired fame or judged it, How to Be Famous is a big-hearted, hilarious tale of fame and fortune—and all that they entail.

For the first time in history, will it be better to be a woman than a man in the upcoming century? The twelfth semi-annual Munk Debate pits Hanna Rosin and Maureen Dowd against Caitlin Moran and Camille Paglia to debate one of the biggest socio-economic phenomena of our time — the relative decline of the power and status of men in the workplace, in the family, and society at large. Men have traditionally been the dominant sex. But now, for the first time, a host of indicators suggests that women not only are achieving equality with men, but are fast emerging as the more successful sex of the species. Whether in education, employment, personal health, or child rearing, statistics point to a rise in the status and power of women at home, in the workplace, and in traditional male bastions such as politics. But are men, and the age-old power structures associated with “maleness,” permanently in decline? In this edition of the Munk Debates — Canada’s premier debate series — renowned author and editor Hanna Rosin and Pulitzer Prize–winning columnist Maureen Dowd square off against New York Times–bestselling author Caitlin Moran and academic trailblazer Camille Paglia to debate the future of men. With women increasingly demonstrating their ability to “have it all” while men lag behind, the Munk Debate on gender tackles the essential socio-economic question: Are men obsolete?

In haar wereldwijde bestseller How to be a woman, die in 23 landen is vertaald, had Caitlin Moran slechts één onderwerp: de vrouw. In deze verzameling award-winnende columns gaat ze de rest van de wereld te lijf: van cafeïne tot Keith Richards, Twitter, Lady Gaga tot boerka s en het auteursrechtelijk vastleggen van je eigen kapsel. Taboedoorbrekend, hilarisch en ontroerend.

Bestsellerautorin, Feministin - Fuck! Was für eine Autorin! England in den 90ern, die Happy Mondays sind in den Charts, Margaret Thatchers Regierungszeit als Premierministerin neigt sich dem Ende zu, und das Land ächzt unter der Arbeitslosigkeit: Wie soll man bloß in einer Sozialsiedlung in Wolverhampton inmitten einer chaotischen Familie erwachsen werden – mit einem Vater, der seit zwanzig Jahren von einer Karriere als Rockstar träumt und einer Mutter, die, obwohl sie schon drei Kinder hat, eine erneute Schwangerschaft bis zum Geburtstermin als Magenverstimmung deutet? Wird Johanna Morrigan mit Hilfe von schwarzem Eyeliner, Doc Martens, derben Sprüchen, einem wilden Partystil und ihrem Wissen über Popmusik endlich Sex haben und ihre Familie retten? Ein intelligenter und witziger Roman über das Erwachsenwerden, trügerische Geschlechterrollen und das Glück, ein Kind der 90er zu sein.

Un retrat agut i desvergonyit de la masculinitat contemporània. Qualsevol feminista que hagi conversat en públic sobre les frustracions i les càrregues innates de l’aventura de ser dona haurà hagut de respondre alguna vegada a la pregunta: «I els homes, què?». Amb la mateixa perspicàcia, lucidesa i insolència amb què ha abordat l’univers femení fins avui, Caitlin Moran s’endinsa aquí en el masculí i intenta desentranyar l’origen de les nostres idees sobre com «hauria» de ser un home i pensar si ha arribat el moment de canviar-les. Així, després d’analitzar com la societat occidental veu la masculinitat, Moran arriba a la conclusió que potser, al capdavall, els problemes del feminisme són també els problemes dels homes. Aquest llibre repassa les converses i l’amistat entre homes, la relació que tenen amb els seus cossos, com es vesteixen, com veuen el sexe (i la pornografia!), com parlen amb les dones, com s’enfronten a la paternitat, a la maduresa, a la malaltia i, finalment, a la vellesa. I els homes, què? és el que passa quan una feminista prolífica i enginyosa dirigeix la mirada cap al sexe oposat, recopila informació visual sobre una espècie fascinant a la manera de David Attenborough i la retrata amb una mirada exhaustiva i ferotge. Senyores i senyors, atents perquè Caitlin Moran ha vingut a qüestionar els efectes nocius del patriarcat sobre, sí!, els homes. I el resultat us sorprendrà.

Nunca houve época melhor para ser mulher. Elas podem votar, têm a pílula, estão no topo das paradas musicais, são eleitas presidentes e primeiras-ministras e não são acusadas de bruxaria e queimadas desde 1727. Entretanto, algumas perguntinhas incômodas persistem:Os homens no fundo as odeiam?Como elas devem chamar os próprios peitos?Por que as calcinhas estão ficando cada vez menores?E por que as pessoas insistem em perguntar quando elas vão ter filhos?Em Como ser mulher, Caitlin Moran responde a essas e muitas outras perguntas que mulheres modernas no mundo todo estão se fazendo.

Caitlin Moran vuelve a la carga con una novela visceral y tronchante sobre el amor, la amistad y los gilipollas con los que a veces nos topamos. A Johanna Morrigan, que firma sus crónicas musicales con el seudónimo de Dolly Wilde, la conocimos en Cómo se hace una chica, donde fuimos testigos de los últimos coletazos de su adolescencia y sus primeros pasos en el mundo adulto y el mundillo musical. Aquí nos la encontramos ejerciendo de columnista en pleno estallido del britpop de los años noventa. Con esta banda sonora de lujo, Cómo ser famosa relata los amoríos de la protagonista con John Kite, que ahora se ha convertido en un cantante famoso con una apretada agenda; su amistad con la irreverente y ocurrente Suzanne, cantante del grupo femenino The Branks, y también su escarceo o encontronazo con un famoso comediante más bien impresentable que responde al nombre de Jerry Sharp. Acaban en la cama y él graba el acontecimiento, para después hacer correr entre sus colegas el vídeo, que terminará en boca de medio Londres y obligará a Johanna a tomar una decisión valiente y provocadora para atajar el bochorno... Caitlin Moran nos ofrece una novela irreverente, deslenguada, mordaz y a ratos desternillante. En ella habla del amor, la amistad, los gilipollas con los que a veces nos topamos y la necesidad de aprender a ser una misma sin tapujos ni cortapisas. Y habla también de Londres, de la vitalidad del pop británico y de la perniciosa obsesión por la fama. Y lo hace desde una mirada feminista y desacomplejada, lanzando opiniones demoledoras y descacharrantes sobre todo lo que se le pone a tiro desde la columna que escribe la protagonista. Concebida como la segunda parte de lo que la autora planea como una trilogía, en la que cada volumen puede leerse de modo independiente, esta obra es Moran en estado puro, disfrutable de la primera página a la última.

Si ets una adolescent grassoneta, t’has de masturbar amb discreció per no despertar el teu germà petit, vius a Wolverhampton, pertanys a una família nombrosa amb una economia precària, tens un pare bevedor amb aspiracions mai satisfetes de triomfar en el món de la música i una mare depressiva, la vida pot ser una merda. Si per a més inri fas el ridícul a la televisió local llegint un poema, ha arribat el moment de prendre mesures dràstiques. Així és com la Johanna Morrigan es converteix en la Dolly Wilde i, sense ser major d’edat, comença a dedicar-se a la crítica musical en una revista de Londres. Entre concert i concert, la protagonista i narradora d’aquesta novel•la d’iniciació relata sense pèls a la llengua el seu pas a l’edat adulta a còpia de fumar, beure i deixar de masturbar-se amb artefactes d’allò més diversos per passar al sexe amb homes no menys diversos, entre els quals un músic de Brighton amb un membre viril inhumanament descomunal. Caitlin Moran continua la seva indagació rupturista en les interioritats de la feminitat amb aquesta narració escrita amb realisme descarnat i humor procaç i plena de referències a la cultura pop dels anys noranta. La veu de Moran ja és imprescindible: contundent, díscola i sobretot molt i molt divertida.