Natasha Carthew
@natashacarthew
Country Writer/Class Disruptor | Publisher @HodderBooks | Agent @JulietPickering | Publicist @VeroNorton
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https://linktr.ee/undercurrentbook 15-11-2011 09:16:55
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Use them or lose them forever - I grew up in rural poverty, everything was borrowed including books from the mobile library, without those lifeline books I wouldn't be the writer I am today, they allowed me to travel, to believe, to fly #SupportLibraries thebookseller.com/comment/making…
Growing up in poverty the radio was always on in our tiny flat, a bit of cheap company maybe but all the music and words of the world, that's why chatting about my writing and activism as a young country kid on BBC Radio 3 means loads to me, Listen here: bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00…
BREAKING NEWS folks, we're going to press with a shiny new Nero Book Awards badge, get yer wallets ready x
Libraries change lives for the better, for me as a poor kid they offered a chance to explore the world through borrowed words, without those lifeline books I defo wouldn't be a writer, that's why as part of the #UndercurrentTour24 I'm planning to visit all of em #SupportLibraries
Great honours come in many guises, but for me as a #WorkingClass writer, getting to talk about E P Thompson and this seminal 1963 work of heart was the greatest - my episode's on tomorrow 10.45pm but you could do worse than listen to them all 🎧 bbc.co.uk/programmes/m00… BBC Radio 3
The thing about writing memoir is you have to tell the whole story the way you see it & it might be through the lens of a chaotic childhood, might be heard from beyond the waves, but each sandy footstep you took alone, it's your story for the telling, so tell it #UndercurrentBook
The #UndercurrentBookTour might have wrapped but... #UndercurrentTour24 coming sooner than you think x