Local author Ali Shaw
Ali Shaw worked at Blackwell’s bookshop and at the Bodleian Library before the publication of his first novel The Girl with Glass Feet, which won the Desmond Elliot Prize and was shortlisted for the Costa First Book Award. His second novel, The Man Who Rained (Atlantic, £14.99), is another fable of impossible love — the story of a girl who falls in love with an outcast with a thunderstorm inside him.
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