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Matt Cain
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Matt Cain was born in Bury and brought up in Bolton. He spent ten years making arts and entertainment programmes for ITV before stepping in front of the camera in 2010 to become Channel 4 News’ first ever culture editor. His first novel, Shot Through the Heart, was published in 2014 and his second, Nothing But Trouble, followed in 2015. As a journalist he's contributed articles to all the major UK newspapers and in 2017 was voted Diversity in Media's Journalist of the Year. In Spring 2018 he stepped down as Editor-in-Chief of Attitude, the UK's biggest-selling magazine for gay men. He lives in London.

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Books by Matt Cain

The Madonna of Bolton

Published to coincide with Madonna’s sixtieth birthday, this is the fastest funding novel in Unbound’s history: a young boy growing up gay in Bolton adopts Madonna as a spirit guide for life

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