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Cathi Unsworth
Unsworth at Krankenhaus 2024
Unsworth at Krankenhaus 2024
Born (1968-06-11) 11 June 1968 (age 56)[1][2][3]
Occupationwriter and journalist
Years active1987–present[4]
Website
cathiunsworth.co.uk
Unsworth (second from right) in 2013

Cathi Unsworth (born 11 June 1968) is an English writer and music journalist. She has written for magazines including Melody Maker, Dazed & Confused and Bizarre, and has released several novels.

Biography

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Unsworth was born on 11 June 1968. She studied at the London College of Fashion and was headhunted by Melody Maker. After working for other magazines, including Purr, Sounds and Bizarre, she began writing novels. Her writing is heavily influenced by the late Derek Raymond.[5]

Her novels first novels were released by Serpent's Tail.[5] These were an expose of the psychopaths of the London media world titled The Not Knowing,[6] in 2005, and The Singer, about the punk music industry, in 2007.[6] She also edited its London Noir anthology in 2006.[5] Unsworth's 2009 novel Bad Penny Blues was a historical novel following the murders of London prostitutes between 1959-1965 by a killer dubbed "Jack The Stripper" by the media, which remain unsolved.[7][8]

Unsworth published seaside noir novel Weirdo, about the horrors of teenage friendship, in 2012,[9][10] followed by Without the Moon in 2015.[11][12] Her book Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth published in 2023, is about the music genre and the subculture that grew out of it.[13][14][15][16] Mojo's Victoria Segal praised it, saying, it was a "superb history of the dark and all its risings" and adding that "it's as monumental as its subject, a real temple of love".[17]

Unsworth has also contributed the short story Sheena Is A Punk Rocker to the anthology Punk Fiction which was sold to fundraise for the Teenage Cancer Charity Trust.[18]

Works

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Novels

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  • The Not Knowing (2005)
  • The Singer (2007)
  • Bad Penny Blues (2009)
  • Weirdo (2012)
  • Without the Moon (2015)
  • That Old Black Magic (2018)

Books

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  • Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth. Nine Eight Books. (2023) ISBN 978-1788706247

Short story collections

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  • London Noir: Capital Crime Fiction (2006) (as editor)

Other

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References

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  1. ^ "Notice de personne "Unsworth, Cathi (1968-....)" | BnF Catalogue général". Bibliothèque nationale de France (in French). Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  2. ^ "k-libre - auteur - Cathi Unsworth". k-libre. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  3. ^ Russell, Sam (6 October 2012). "Author returns to Great Yarmouth for setting of fourth novel". Eastern Daily Press. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  4. ^ Stevens, Andrew (8 July 2008). "London Noir: Cathi Unsworth Interviewed". 3:AM Magazine. Retrieved 2 September 2024.
  5. ^ a b c "Cathi Unsworth". Serpent's Tail. Archived from the original on 16 August 2007. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  6. ^ a b Waites, Martyn. "CATHI UNSWORTH In the Spotlight". shotsmag.co.uk. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  7. ^ Cartwright, Garth. "Now You See Her: An Interview with Cathi Unsworth". 3:AM Magazine. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  8. ^ Burke, Paul (2 April 2021). "Bad Penny Blues by Cathi Unsworth". Crime Fiction Lover. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  9. ^ "I Don't Belong Here: Cathi Unsworth's Weirdo In 13 Albums". The Quietus. 25 July 2012. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  10. ^ Hughes, Sarah (13 August 2012). "Queens of noir". The Guardian. ISSN 0261-3077. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  11. ^ Barfoot, Joan (14 July 2016). "English crime writer and ex-journalist Cathi Unsworth creates a smart, fictitious tale that feels utterly true in her new book Without the Moon". London Free Press. Archived from the original on 5 December 2021. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  12. ^ Kalb, Deborah (5 July 2016). "Q&A with Cathi Unsworth". Book Q&As with Deborah Kalb. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  13. ^ Power, Ed (14 February 2025). "Gen Z have brought goth back and for good reasons: Inside the gothic revival". The Independent. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  14. ^ Diboll, Mike (29 October 2023). "Review and Reflections: Cathi Unsworth's Season of the Witch: the Book of Goth, Nine Eight Books, 2023; or, Why I Never Became a Goth". Toxic Grafity. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  15. ^ Quinn, Kevin (31 July 2023). "Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth". UAL. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  16. ^ Charlish, Nicky. "Lighten Our Darkness". 3:AM Magazine. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
  17. ^ Season of the Witch: The Book of Goth, ASIN 1788706242
  18. ^ Hynes, Dev (7 May 2009). "Punk Fiction - Pop Stars Pen Punk Tales". Clash Magazine Music News, Reviews & Interviews. Retrieved 30 April 2025.
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