Tina ShawTina Shaw

Tina Shaw is the author of numerous books for adults and children. Her latest novel Ephemera is published by Cloud Ink Press and set in the aftermath of a pandemic.

‘It’s bloody eerie for me’: An essay by Tina Shaw, who wrote her own pandemic

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Review copies of Tina Shaw’s pandemic novel Ephemera landed in letterboxes just as the country went into lockdown. Here, she reflects on this strange new reality. These new times have the uncanny feeling of fiction – of science fiction, or post-apocalyptic fiction. In other words, the unreal has become real. I keep thinking of Station … Read more

The second to last man to be executed in New Zealand

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Tina Shaw reviews Fiona Kidman’s powerful and haunting new novel based on the short life and brutal death of Albert Black, hanged at Mt Eden jail in 1955. Fiona Kidman is adept at casting her imagination into the past and bringing to life significant characters and times. She stepped back to the Sydney and New … Read more