Laura Barton


UK flag (b.1977)

Laura Barton was born in Lancashire in 1977, and now lives in London.  She has been a journalist at the Guardian, and has also written for Q, theWord, Intelligent Life and Radio 4. Twenty-One Locks is her first novel.
 

 
New and upcoming books
May 2025

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Sad Songs
 
Novels
   Twenty-One Locks (2010)
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Non fiction show
 
Award nominations
2011 Betty Trask Prize (nominee) : Twenty-One Locks


Laura Barton recommends
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This Could be Everything (2023)
Eva Rice
"I've never read such a perfect evocation of the 90s; the music, the fashion, the feel. Nor such a summation of youth and loss and love. This book is wise and tender and dazzling. Rice is just a masterful writer."
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White Riot (2023)
(United Kingdom Trilogy, book 1)
Joe Thomas
"White Riot is an electrifying novel of politics, the counterculture, and music as a powerful force. In Suzi Scialfa, Thomas has given us a pioneering character - a female journalist, forging her way in a man's world; you believe in her, root for her, want to hear more. I loved this book."



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