This morning’s view
williamshaw2024-02-12T09:46:02+00:00Not too shabby. The end of the rainbow is in Dingle Bay which I can also see a slice of from my desk.
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02, 2024
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01, 2024
In one week, I’m heading to Ireland
williamshaw2024-01-02T11:42:07+00:00Valentia, looking towards Reynard Point In one week's time we leave for Ireland, knowing how lucky I am to be able to slip from one country to another. My father was born in Belfast. I have an Irish passport. Jane is London Irish, her parents from Kerry and Sligo so it's a pretty easy move [...]
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09, 2023
What’s your favourite t-shirt?
williamshaw2023-09-22T12:54:11+01:00In a recent newsletter I asked people to enter a giveway for one of Dungeness artist Paddy Hamilton's Dungeness Font t-shirts. To enter, all they had to do was answer this question. What is your favourite t-shirt? I was totally unprepared for how may people would answer. I’ve had about fifty stories in the first [...]
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05, 2023
Kett’s Books
williamshaw2023-05-15T18:18:02+01:00It was great to get back to this brilliant little community bookshop for the launch event for Dead Rich. Little it may be, but it's a shop with big ideas. Next year will be the bookshop's tenth anniversary. The community interest company was launched when the small town's bookshop announced it was closing. Since then [...]
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03, 2023
The Conspirators
williamshaw2023-03-22T16:53:05+00:00My second G. W. Shaw book The Conspirators is out on July 20th 2023. It's been a long journey for this book. I had the original idea for it under lockdown, reading my friend Marek's book Four Words For Friend. Marek has Polish heritage and became fascinated with how bilingualism affects our neurology and the way [...]