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William Shaw

    Cet auteur est célèbre pour ses romans policiers captivants, plaçant souvent ses récits dans des paysages urbains historiques méticuleusement recréés. Son œuvre explore les aspects les plus sombres de la société, tissant des intrigues complexes avec une représentation atmosphérique de la vie citadine. Au-delà de ses séries de fiction, l'auteur s'est également penché sur des sujets de non-fiction fascinants, enquêtant sur les sous-cultures et les défis sociétaux avec un œil d'observateur averti. Cette production diversifiée témoigne d'un engagement à examiner la condition humaine à travers la narration imaginative et le reportage perspicace.

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

      • 384pages
      • 14 heures de lecture

      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 Swimmers2024
      3,9
    • The Trawlerman

      • 320pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

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

      The Trawlerman2021
      4,1
    • Moore's Ethics

      • 75pages
      • 3 heures de lecture

      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 Ethics2020
    • Grave's End

      • 465pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

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

      Grave's End2020
      4,2
    • Deadland

      • 480pages
      • 17 heures de lecture

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

      Deadland2019
      4,1
    • 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 Lane2018
      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 Devil2017
      3,8
    • Superfood Breakfasts!

      • 144pages
      • 6 heures de lecture

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

      Superfood Breakfasts!2016
    • The Birdwatcher

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

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

      The Birdwatcher2016
      4,1
    • A Book of Scars

      • 432pages
      • 16 heures de lecture

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

      A Book of Scars2015
      4,1
    • 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 Ausgabe2013
      3,8
    • Das Kochbuch für Diabetiker

      • 256pages
      • 9 heures de lecture

      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 Diabetiker2011
    • Westside

      Young Men and Hip Hop in L.A.

      • 336pages
      • 12 heures de lecture

      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.

      Westside2000
      3,3
    • Spying in Guru Land

      Inside the Britain's Cults

      • 224pages
      • 8 heures de lecture

      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 Land1995
      4,1