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Yes indeed, Linda. Deadland is out in the UK in May, featuring DS Cupidi and the return of William South.
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The Birdwatcher (DS Alexandra Cupidi #0/prequel)
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2016
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Salt Lane (DS Alexandra Cupidi #1)
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2018
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Deadland (DS Alexandra Cupidi #2)
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2019
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A Song From Dead Lips (Breen and Tozer, #1)
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2013
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Grave's End
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2020
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The Trawlerman (DS Alexandra Cupidi, #4)
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2021
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A House of Knives (Breen and Tozer, #2)
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2014
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A Book of Scars (Breen and Tozer, #3)
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2015
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Sympathy for the Devil (Breen and Tozer, #4)
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2017
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2023 Updates - and the new Cupidi book
This July I have a new novel coming out - writing as G.W. Shaw. The Conspirators features a hapless translator who, down on his luck and with a girlfriend who's jilting him for his lack of ambition, takes a job working abroad, only to find he's part of an international fraud ring, and in the middle of a violent turf war between two crime syndicates.
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Kind of American dirty realism made European – in good way. A tale of a boy being brought up by a deadbeat dad in a trailer park, while looking after a brother who seems to have severe cerebral palsy. It's a world full of mess and danger, shown from ...more |
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"I'm a bit addicted to this series now, and really couldn't put this down, hence romping through it in a couple of days. Alex Cupidi is a likeable detective, as are her colleagues, and the plot is sufficiently complex to keep you guessing. As a person"
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"William Shaw is one of the great music journalists of our time. If you are interested in hip-hop, this book will earn a permanent place in your library. "
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| Superb Cold War novel. The writing is crisp and witty and full of brilliant invention. If there's a downside it's that the plate is a little overloaded with plot and there are a few moments when you stop to wonder stupid things like 'Would that Londo ...more | |
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is reading The Partisan: Superb Cold War spy novel. Witty, observant writing with a nice edginess about it. Quibbles might be that it overloads the plate a little with plot and there are a couple of moments when I found myself wondering if there would have been yellow lines on London roadsides in 1961 (almost 99% not) or whether Lithuanians would have known what a Margarita pizza was (ditto) but I'm jealousy quibbling because I'm jealous mos
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“When, on his first day here, he had told the gallery director he was an artist too, he had smiled thinly. ‘How nice.’ The conventional art world was a fortress that built clean white walls around itself to protect the favoured few. It was uninterested in people who hadn’t come up through the system.”
― Deadland
― Deadland
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“Adams grew up in the sixties, and the Beatles “planted a seed in my head that made it explode. Every nine months there’d be a new album which would be an earth-shattering development from where they were before. We were so obsessed by them that when ‘Penny Lane’ came out and we hadn’t heard it on the radio, we beat up this boy who had heard it until he hummed the tune to us. People now ask if Oasis are as good as the Beatles. I don’t think they are as good as the Rutles.”
― The Salmon of Doubt
― The Salmon of Doubt
“It was one of those times when the unsatisfactory complexity of the world fades far enough into the distance for the moment to become a thing in itself.”
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Has it? News to me! Can I get you a copy then, Susan?
I see a new book has appeared on NetGalley - very exciting!
