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William Shaw

    Questo autore è celebrato per la sua avvincente narrativa poliziesca, ambientando spesso le sue storie in paesaggi urbani storici meticolosamente ricreati. Il suo lavoro si addentra negli aspetti più oscuri della società, tessendo trame intricate con una rappresentazione suggestiva della vita cittadina. Oltre alle sue serie di finzione, l'autore ha anche esplorato temi di saggistica avvincenti, indagando sottoculture e sfide sociali con un acuto occhio d'osservazione. Questa variegata produzione dimostra l'impegno a esaminare la condizione umana sia attraverso la narrazione fantasiosa che il reportage acuto.

    Deadland
    The Trawlerman
    The Birdwatcher
    A Book of Scars
    Grave's End
    Spying in Guru Land
    • Spying in Guru Land

      Inside the Britain's Cults

      • 224pagine
      • 8 ore di lettura

      William Shaw's acclaimed account of his incursions into the covert world of cults.Shaw spent a year infiltrating some of Britain's most secretive cults and religious groups, including the Emin, the Jesus Army, the Aetherius Society, Krishna Consciousness and Chrisemma (run by Chris and Emma in Totnes), in order to investigate the labyrinthine world of Guru Land. In the midst of our secular society, he finds a complex alternative culture where acolytes endure dark privations, perform arcane ceremonies, and submit willingly to their new masters.Attending countless meetings and 'workshops', and in several cases seeming to become a signed-up member of the group, Shaw goes against the advice of self-styled experts to find a truer picture of cult members than has so far been given by a sensationalist media.

      Spying in Guru Land
      4,1
    • Grave's End

      • 465pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      The gripping new novel in the DS Alexandra Cupidi series set in Kent

      Grave's End
      4,2
    • A Book of Scars

      • 432pagine
      • 16 ore di lettura

      CWA Historical Dagger shortlisted third novel in the Breen and Tozer series reveals the crimes of Britain's colonial past.

      A Book of Scars
      4,1
    • The Birdwatcher

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      Dark, intelligent crime novel about a policeman with a secret past, and an emotive exploration of violence within the family

      The Birdwatcher
      4,1
    • The Trawlerman

      • 320pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      THE STUNNING FOURTH BOOK IN THE DS ALEXANDRA CUPIDI INVESTIGATIONS FROM ONE OF CRIME FICTION'S FINEST WRITERS

      The Trawlerman
      4,1
    • Deadland

      • 480pagine
      • 17 ore di lettura

      The new DS Cupidi thriller set in contemporary Kent from the bestselling author of The Birdwatcher and Salt Lane

      Deadland
      4,1
    • The Wild Swimmers

      • 384pagine
      • 14 ore di lettura

      The newest instalment in the D S Cupidi Series, featuring a mysterious body washed up on the Folkstone shoreline and a suspect whose identity is hidden behind a string of intriguing first dates . . .

      The Wild Swimmers
      3,9
    • In the fourth Breen & Tozer, William Shaw marries a gripping police procedural with an espionage plot to bring the series to a stunning and moving climax

      Sympathy for the Devil
      3,8
    • A murdered migrant is the first big case for the embattled DS Alexandra Cupidi in a new series by the acclaimed author of The Birdwatcher

      Salt Lane
      3,9
    • FREE LOVE. DEADLY PRICE. 'William Shaw is one of the great rising talents of UK crime fiction' Peter James 'If you're not a fan yet, why not?' Val McDermid 'A first-rate police thriller set amidst the seamy underside of the swinging sixties' C. J. Sansom The Runaway A nameless young woman is found naked and strangled in an alley on Abbey Road. The Reject DS Cathal Breen, an outcast in the Marylebone CID, struggles to make sense of the case. The Rookie Until new recruit WPC Helen Tozer - the first woman to join the team - makes a breakthrough. And as hippies slam doors in their face, and locals suspect the new African neighbours, Breen and Tozer tread down a perilous path, closing in on a cruel conspiracy that goes far beyond class, colour and creed.

      A Song from Dead Lips. Abbey Road Murder Song, englische Ausgabe
      3,8
    • Westside

      Young Men and Hip Hop in L.A.

      • 336pagine
      • 12 ore di lettura

      From acclaimed author and journalist William Shaw comes this probing exploration of the dreams and realities of seven young African-American men struggling to make it in Southcentral Los Angeles, the world capital of gangsta rap and West Coast hip hop. In the late eighties, hip hop was revolutionized by the hard new sound that exploded from Los Angeles. The exhilarating and shocking new music described a place where guns, sex, and life are cheap and disposable and where the struggle for success, stability, and respect is hard fought. The seven young subjects of this hauntingly beautiful chronicle have all grown up in a neighborhood riddled with violence where the notion of manhood seems constantly under threat -- and all of them dream of transforming this urban experience into the platinum success enjoyed by their heroes, rappers such as Tupac Shakur, Snoop Dogg, and Dr. Dre. The sometimes troubled products of a ruthless environment, they look to hip hop as their only viable form of expression, as their key to survival, and as their greatest hope for escape.Equal parts music journalism, travel writing, and urban history, "Westside" is literary non-fiction at its best, revealing a place and a way of life rarely seen and little understood by outsiders.

      Westside
      3,3
    • Moore's Ethics

      • 75pagine
      • 3 ore di lettura

      A critical survey of the full range of G. E. Moore's ethical thought, including his rejection of naturalism in favor of the view that 'good' designates a simple indefinable property, his understanding of intrinsic value, his doctrine of organic wholes, and his critique of egoism and subjectivism.

      Moore's Ethics
    • Superfood Breakfasts!

      • 144pagine
      • 6 ore di lettura

      Kick-start your day with fruit and seed layered smoothie bowls to nutrition- packed bars and balls.

      Superfood Breakfasts!
    • Das Kochbuch für Diabetiker

      • 256pagine
      • 9 ore di lettura

      Bewusst kochen, genussvoll essen Über 140 internationale Rezepte für Typ2-Diabetiker, die sich gesund ernähren aber nicht auf den Genuss verzichten wollen! Das und vieles mehr finden Sie im neuen Kochbuch für Diabetiker. Die gesunden und vor allem einfach nachzukochenden Gerichte aus aller Welt reichen von fruchtigen Smoothies über raffinierte Tandoori oder Puten-Kebabs bis zu chinesischem Schweinefleisch mit Cashewnüssen. Neben vollständigen Nährwertangaben zu jedem Gericht liefert es alle wichtigen Informationen für eine diabetesgerechte Ernährung. So erlaubt ein praktisches Punktesystem einen schnellen Überblick über den Glykämischen Index, gesättigte Fettsäuren, Kalorien und Salz pro Portion. Zusätzliche Tabellen zu Themen wie der generellen Zuckerzufuhr, unterwegs essen oder Abnehmen helfen dabei, sich schnell und umfangreich zu informieren. Alle Rezepte enthalten die Nährwertangaben, die Diabetiker entsprechend den Vorgaben der Deutschen Diabetes-Gesellschaft kennen sollten!

      Das Kochbuch für Diabetiker