Author: William Shaw
Bio: Before writing fiction, William Shaw was the author of several non-fiction books including Westside, about a year spent with the young men of South Central Los Angeles, and A Superhero For Hire, a compilation of columns in the Observer Magazine. She's Leaving Home is the first in a trilogy of crime fiction books set in London in 1968 - 1969, featuring Detective Sergeant Cathal Breen and Constable Helen Tozeer. The second, Kings of London, is due in early 2015.

Starting out as assistant editor of the post-punk magazine ZigZag, he has been a journalist for The Observer, The New York Times, Wired, Arena and The Face and was Amazon UK Music Journalist of the Year in 2003.

The author lives in Brighton.

(from Amazon author's page)