Martin Shaw

Martin Shaw is a former head book buyer

Blog post — 6 Feb 2012

Q&A with Michael Sala, author of The Last Thread

The Last Thread is a novel about a life in fiction – recalling a young boy’s childhood in the Netherlands and a family’s journey to Australian during the 1980s, as…

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Review — 27 Feb 2012

What We Talk About When We Talk about Anne Frank by Nathan Englander

On my very first visit to New York in 1999, I decided to go to a book launch one hot summer evening in a little store in Greenwich village, just…

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Blog post — 27 Oct 2011

Q&A with Steven Amsterdam, author of What The Family Needed

Martin Shaw interviews Steven Amsterdam about the new work of fiction, What The Family Needed.

Things We Didn’t See Coming*, your 2009 debut novel, was categorised by some reviewers…

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