Laura Barton
Laura has been a journalist at the Guardian since 2000 and regularly contributes to: The Word magazine, Q, Intelligent Life, Thefirstpost.co.uk, Marie Claire, Elle, Vogue and Company. She’ll be reading from her new novel, Twenty-One Locks and hosting Caught By The River‘s Nature Book Reader – in conversation with Laura Beatty and Chris Watson on the subject of their favorite nature writings.
Laura’s been interviewed on Women’s Hour, and has a week of short stories on Radio 4, coming up in the spring of 2010, about Northern Soul and the town she grew up in. She’s been on Front Row and has presented a Radio 4 documentary programme and used to review new music for the Victoria Derbyshire programme on Radio 5 amongst many other things.
Her new novel Twenty-One Locks is the story of a perfume girl whose dull life and impending marriage are turned upside down when a handsome drifter comes into town.
