A selection of links from the press and other media
With thanks to organisers Stephanie Cross and Jack Parlett, here is a link to a fifteen minute talk I gave as part of their wonderful 5x15 podcast series. I start at 44 mins in and am in good company here:
https://youtu.be/O_dCmvMub2I?si=hYlGZow3F105joXE&t=2643
https://youtu.be/O_dCmvMub2I?si=hYlGZow3F105joXE&t=2643
And here is an interview I was honoured to have with the legend that is Terry Gross, on NPR's Fresh Air channel (I'd recommend listening rather than reading the partial transcript):
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1239633773
https://www.npr.org/transcripts/1239633773
Saturday Live! A Radio 4 real-time studio recording with the dynamic and wonderful Nikki Bedi, plus fascinating guests Ruth Goodman and Steven Knight: https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001ypsh
On Radio 3's The Verb, with poet and presenter extraordinaire, Ian McMillan, and fellow guests Holly Pester, Karen Featherstone, and Hannah Sullivan:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x414
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001x414
Write About Now podcast interview, with Jonathan Small:
https://writeaboutnowmedia.com/podcast/2024/4/9/a-former-nun-escapes-her-secretive-monastery
(Note: there's a an odd silence/ glitch at 39 mins in, but the conversation resumes after a bit)
https://writeaboutnowmedia.com/podcast/2024/4/9/a-former-nun-escapes-her-secretive-monastery
(Note: there's a an odd silence/ glitch at 39 mins in, but the conversation resumes after a bit)
Two very nice pieces in the Observer, thanks to the fabulous Kate Kellaway:
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-catherine-coldstream-extract
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/catherine-coldstream-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-god-interview
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-catherine-coldstream-extract
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2024/feb/25/catherine-coldstream-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-god-interview
Short piece in The New Statesman, by Pippa Bailey:
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/03/from-bridget-oconnor-to-grace-blakeley-new-books-reviewed-in-short
Fergus Butler-Gallie writes engagingly in the Spectator World: https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/incisive-memoir-life-cloisters-cloistered-catherine-coldstream/
The TLS: Guy Stagg's review can be read here:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cloistered-catherine-coldstream-book-review-guy-stagg/
The Church Times: an insightful review by Lavinia Byrne:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/8-march/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-by-catherine-coldstream
A probing long-form interview with Sarah Meyrick in the Easter issue of the Church Times:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/28-march/features/features/convent-was-run-like-a-cult
(Czech language) interview with Klára Elšíková, November 2024: https://magazin.aktualne.cz/dvanact-let-neopustila-zdi-klastera-ted-napsala-autobiografi/r~9e41d01896e111ef801c0cc47ab5f122/
Thanks to Sally Bayley for this interesting write-up in the Catholic Herald:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/review-cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream/
I am also grateful to Ysenda Maxtone Graham for her excellent review in the Mail on Sunday, and it is only the fact that it had such a crass headline imposed by the paper's editors that means I won't be linking to it here.
Publishers' Weekly, US review: www.publishersweekly.com/9781250323514?fbclid=IwY2xjawIp1IxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbqgKLakTiIebHmaMZbpEG5RgVNfaNoi11v1EdyT6m9UKGoYW348ucPQkw_aem_JKg2KjpPIwpJpkVAToUgPA
https://www.newstatesman.com/culture/2024/03/from-bridget-oconnor-to-grace-blakeley-new-books-reviewed-in-short
Fergus Butler-Gallie writes engagingly in the Spectator World: https://thespectator.com/book-and-art/incisive-memoir-life-cloisters-cloistered-catherine-coldstream/
The TLS: Guy Stagg's review can be read here:
https://www.the-tls.co.uk/articles/cloistered-catherine-coldstream-book-review-guy-stagg/
The Church Times: an insightful review by Lavinia Byrne:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/8-march/books-arts/book-reviews/book-review-cloistered-my-years-as-a-nun-by-catherine-coldstream
A probing long-form interview with Sarah Meyrick in the Easter issue of the Church Times:
https://www.churchtimes.co.uk/articles/2024/28-march/features/features/convent-was-run-like-a-cult
(Czech language) interview with Klára Elšíková, November 2024: https://magazin.aktualne.cz/dvanact-let-neopustila-zdi-klastera-ted-napsala-autobiografi/r~9e41d01896e111ef801c0cc47ab5f122/
Thanks to Sally Bayley for this interesting write-up in the Catholic Herald:
https://catholicherald.co.uk/review-cloistered-by-catherine-coldstream/
I am also grateful to Ysenda Maxtone Graham for her excellent review in the Mail on Sunday, and it is only the fact that it had such a crass headline imposed by the paper's editors that means I won't be linking to it here.
Publishers' Weekly, US review: www.publishersweekly.com/9781250323514?fbclid=IwY2xjawIp1IxleHRuA2FlbQIxMQABHbqgKLakTiIebHmaMZbpEG5RgVNfaNoi11v1EdyT6m9UKGoYW348ucPQkw_aem_JKg2KjpPIwpJpkVAToUgPA
Review in The Tablet by Fr Luke Bell OSB, of Quarr Abbey
Catholic Herald feature, November 2024
BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week: adaptation of Cloistered by Jill Waters of The Waters Company:
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/series/m001xvg3