Martin Shaw Book Recommendations & Book Mentions
This list consists of recommendations or mentions of books spotted in media, social media accounts, podcasts or other public websites.
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Translator, literary agent @ShawLiterary. Formerly head book buyer @readingsbooks. Kafka, Sebald, the Antipodes.
The Ink Black Heart: A Cormoran Strike Novel
Robert GalbraithMartin ShawThe top 10 bestsellers in OZ right now might surprise you (or not). Not the first four, for sure: The 156-Storey Treehouse (Andy Griffiths & Terry Denton) Fairy Tale (Stephen King) Where the Crawdads Sing (Delia Owens)* The Ink Black Heart (Robert Galbraith)
Paperback, 2023
$22.99$11.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Magnificent Rebels: The First Romantics and the Invention of the Self
Andrea WulfMartin ShawNext literary gathering I’m definitely going to wear a “threadbare, rhubarb-coloured coat” like Freddy Schlegel… (from Andrea Wulf’s Magnificent Rebels) https://t.co/lIaeJz232k
Paperback, 2023
$20.00$10.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Austerlitz
W. G. SebaldMartin Shaw@jocaseau @AEAkinwumi I do remember being disappointed by Sebald’s Austerlitz when it came out - & we all know what a raving fan I am!
Paperback, 2011
$22.00$11.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Ugly Love
Colleen HooverMartin ShawBut here's 5 thru 10: The American Roommate Experiment (Elena Armas) It Ends With Us (paperback) (Colleen Hoover) It Ends With Us (ANZ pb edition) (Colleen Hoover) Verity (Colleen Hoover) One (Jamie Oliver) Ugly Love (Colleen Hoover)
Paperback, 2014
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
What Fear Was
Ben WalterMartin Shaw"A scintillating collection of short fiction..." - nothing like getting to the heart of the matter in the opening words of your review! Over at @Meanjin, here's @zowie_dk on Ben Walter's wonderful debut What Fear Was https://t.co/GrsPcJIKUQ
Paperback, 2021
$16.99$8.49 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Wall
Jen CraigMartin Shaw"In Wall, the mouldy carpets of that Chatswood bungalow turn out to hold messages as plangent in their own way as any of Sebald’s grand country piles" @GAM_Williamson with a marvellous review of Jen Craig's latest novel in @SatPaper https://t.co/PZx6FBDQkv
Paperback, 2023
$14.00$7.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Pessoa: A Biography
Richard ZenithMartin Shaw@BarneysRubble0 Richard Zenith's Selected seems the obvious place to start: it's called Pessoa & Co. (I have it somewhere, just not immediately to hand!)
Paperback, 2023
$30.00$15.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Rehearsal
Eleanor CattonMartin ShawSomeone asked the other day on here how long you give a book, to which the correct answer is invariably one. I mean just imagine reading this from the 21 yo Eleanor Catton on submission (“The Rehearsal”) & not sitting bolt-upright up in your chair… https://t.co/0DCMwA5zex
Paperback, 2011
$21.99$10.99 + Free shipping50% off your first book
Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me
Javier MarĂasMartin ShawTomás Nevinson searches a woman’s bedside drawer & discovers a novel (that sounds suspiciously like Javier MarĂas’ Tomorrow in the Battle Think on Me!) https://t.co/ncSvrwfpjD
Paperback, 2013
$16.00$8.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book
The Pole
J. M. CoetzeeMartin ShawThat's curious, Coetzee's new one is out in German translation already, four months ahead of the English original! Seems to be just the novella solus though ("The Pole",) and not stories as well... https://t.co/1Li5aazMHJ
Hardcover, 2023
$26.00$13.00 + Free shipping50% off your first book