William Shaw (writer)

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William Shaw works as a journalist and writer in the US and in the UK. One of his earlier works is the 1999 book Westsiders: Stories of the Boys in the Hood, [1] which chronicles the attempts of a group of Los Angelenos to become successful hip hop artists.

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He worked on Details magazine and remains a contributing editor there. For Details he spent a month in the Utah desert living with Stone Age survivalists, went undercover at cross burnings with the neo-Nazi Christian Identity Movement in Idaho, shot AK-47s with Zionist fundamentalists in upper New York State and spent a week staying at the Church of Scientology Celebrity Center in Hollywood. He started his journalistic career as the Assistant Editor of the punk/goth magazine ZigZag . Since then his work has appeared in publications around the world, including The Times and The Independent . His first book, Travellers, was an oral history of Britain's New Age travellers. That was followed in 1994 by Spying in Guru Land, an account of a year spent as a member of several British religious cults.

His book, Small Ads, based on his Observer column, appeared in 2005 as A Superhero for Hire.

His recent works include police mystery novels based in London in the 1960s; the main characters are Detective Sergeant Breen and Woman Police Constable Tozer.

Shaw's police novel Salt Lane (May 2018) is the first in a new series which features DS Alexandra Cupidi. [2] The novel The Birdwatcher (2016) is set before the events of this book.

William Shaw lives in Brighton, United Kingdom.

Bibliography

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DS Cathal Breen and WPC Helen Tozer

Standalone Novel featuring DS Cupidi

DS Alex Cupidi

Writing as GW Shaw

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References

  1. The Guardian, 17 Jan 2000
  2. "William Shaw - Salt Lane - Quercus". Quercus. Retrieved 10 June 2018.