Best Selling Books by Caitlin Moran

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 author of the international bestseller How to Be a Woman returns with another “hilarious neo-feminist manifesto” (NPR) in which she reflects on parenting, middle-age, marriage, existential crises—and, of course, feminism. A decade ago, Caitlin Moran burst onto the scene with her instant bestseller, How to Be a Woman, a hilarious and resonant take on feminism, the patriarchy, and all things womanhood. Moran’s seminal book followed her from her terrible 13th birthday through adolescence, the workplace, strip-clubs, love, and beyond—and is considered the inaugural work of the irreverent confessional feminist memoir genre that continues to occupy a major place in the cultural landscape. Since that publication, it’s been a glorious ten years for young women: Barack Obama loves Fleabag, and Dior make “FEMINIST” t-shirts. However, middle-aged women still have some nagging, unanswered questions: Can feminists have Botox? Why isn’t there such a thing as “Mum Bod”? Why do hangovers suddenly hurt so much? Is the camel-toe the new erogenous zone? Why do all your clothes suddenly hate you? Has feminism gone too far? Will your To Do List ever end? And WHO’S LOOKING AFTER THE CHILDREN? As timely as it is hysterically funny, this memoir/manifesto will have readers laughing out loud, blinking back tears, and redefining their views on feminism and the patriarchy. More Than a Woman is a brutally honest, scathingly funny, and absolutely necessary take on the life of the modern woman—and one that only Caitlin Moran can provide.

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.

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.

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.

An Instant #1 Sunday Times bestseller With her signature candor and wit, New York Times bestselling author Caitlin Moran attempts to answer society’s weirdly unasked question: What About Men? Like anyone who discusses the problems of girls and women in public, Caitlin Moran has often been confronted with the question: “But what about men?” And at first, tbh, she dgaf. Boys, and men, are fine, right? Feminism doesn’t need to worry about them. However, around the time she heard an angry young man saying he was “boycotting” International Women’ Day because “It''s easier to be a woman than a man these days,” she started to wonder: are unhappy boys, and men, also making unhappy women? The statistics on male misery are grim: boys are falling behind in school, are at greater risk of depression, greater risk of suicide, and, most pertinently, are increasingly at risk from online misogynist radicalization. Will the Sixth Wave of feminism need to fix the men, if it wants to fix the women? Moran began to investigate—talking to her husband, close male friends, and her daughters'' friends: bringing up very difficult and candid topics, and receiving vulnerable and honest responses. So: what about men? Why do they only go to the doctor if their partner makes them? Why do they never discuss their penises with each other—but make endless jokes about their balls? What is porn doing for young men? Is sexual strangling a good hobby for young people to have? Are men ever allowed to be sad? Are they ever allowed to lose? Have Men''s Rights Activists confused “power” with “empowerment”? Are Mid-Life Crises actually quite cool? And what’s the deal with Jordan Peterson’s lobster? In this thoughtful, warm, provocative book, Moran opens a genuinely new debate about how to reboot masculinity for the twenty-first century, so that “straight white man” doesn’t automatically mean bad news—but also uses the opportunity to make a lot of jokes about testicles, and trousers. Because if men have neither learned to mine their deepest anxieties about masculinity for comedy, nor answered the question “What About Men?,” then it’s up to a busy woman to do it.

Now a major motion picture starring Beanie Feldstein! The New York Times bestselling author hailed as “the UK’s answer to Tina Fey, Chelsea Handler, and Lena Dunham all rolled into one” (Marie Claire) makes her fiction debut with a hilarious yet deeply moving coming of age novel. 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 the 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.

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.

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.

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?

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.

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.

Imagine a voz de Sylvia Plath em Grease, com trilha de My Bloody Valentine e Velvet Underground. Um hilário romance de formação, sobre como é difícil se tornar alguém. "Wolverhampton, em 1990, parece uma cidade a que algo terrível aconteceu. " Talvez tenha acontecido de fato. Talvez seja Margaret Thatcher, talvez seja a vergonha que Johanna Morrigan passou num programa da TV local aos catorze anos. Nossa protagonista decide então se reinventar como Dolly Wilde - heroína gótica, loquaz e Aventureira do Sexo, que salvará a família da pobreza com sua literatura. Aos 16 anos, ela está fumando, bebendo, trabalhando para um fanzine de música, escrevendo cartas pornográficas para rock-stars, transando com todo tipo de homem e ganhando por cada palavra que escreve para destruir uma banda. Mas e se Johanna tiver feito Dolly com as peças erradas? Será que uma caixa de discos e uma parede de pôsteres bastam para se fazer uma garota?"Tenho tanto amor por Caitlin Moran. " - Lena Dunham

La continuación del ya clásico Cómo ser mujer: Caitlin Moran nos cuenta qué es ser una cuarentona y no morir en el intento. ¿Quién dijo que convertirse en una mujer de mediana edad iba a ser una tarea fácil? Caitlin Moran, que arrasó con aquel tronchante y lúcido manifiesto de feminismo asilvestrado titulado Cómo ser mujer, regresa con una secuela que desmonta la teoría de que segundas partes nunca fueron buenas, dada la espectacularidad de esta. Si en la anterior entrega hablaba la joven Caitlin, aquí es la cuarentona la que vuelve a la carga. Ahora las experiencias vitales son otras y han cambiado algunas prioridades y puntos de vista, pero la pluma con la que escribe sigue afiladísima. A mitad de camino entre la crónica personal, el manifiesto hilarante y la guía para hacerse mayor sin morir en el intento, este libro, ordenado siguiendo las horas de un día cualquiera, aborda temas como la tiranía de las listas de tareas pendientes; el sexo conyugal en las parejas con hijos y el denominado Polvo de Mantenimiento; las dudas sobre si una feminista puede ponerse bótox; las posturas de yoga para relajarse; la flaccidez del cuerpo cuando nos plantamos ante el espejo; las malditas tareas domésticas; las diferencias entre hombres y mujeres en los procesos y tiempos para excitarse sexualmente; cómo lidiar con las crisis de las hijas adolescentes (incluidos los trastornos alimentarios y las tentativas de suicidio); cómo lidiar con los achaques de unos padres ancianos... El volumen incluye una gloriosa lista de objetos inútiles que una acumula en casa pese a saber que jamás los va a volver a utilizar (desde una máquina para hacer pasta hasta unas medias de rejilla) y culmina con una apoteósica versión en femenino del famoso poema de Kipling «Si». En tiempos propensos a los dogmas de fe, la corrección política y la autocensura, es maravilloso comprobar que la Caitlin Moran de mediana edad sigue tan procaz, ingeniosa, aguda, feroz, inteligente y lúcida como siempre, con su feminismo grouchomarxista funcionando a toda máquina.

VO : How to be a woman Éditeur original : Ebury Press, an imprint of Ebury Publishing, a Random House Group company. © Caitlin Moran, 2011 Pour la traduction française : © Flammarion, 2014 En couverture : Photo: © Levon Biss / Contour by Getty Images