Viva Lewes Issue #137 February 2018

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ON THIS MONTH: LITERATURE Photo by Kitty Wheeler-Shaw William Shaw Crime pays I sit down rather reluctantly with the hard-back edition of Sympathy for the Devil, the latest in William Shaw’s ‘Breen and Tozer’ crime series. Crime fiction isn’t really my thing, but he’s on my interview list, and a cursory skim-through will help me with my questions. About five hours later, I turn the last page… Two days on, and I’m at the writer’s home in Brighton, feeling rather envious. Like me he started out as a journalist (he worked on Smash Hits, and for the Observer) and wrote a series of non-fiction books. Unlike me, he subsequently fulfilled his ambition to go on to write fiction: he’s currently working on his seventh novel. But it wasn’t easy. “At first, I wanted to write literary fiction,” he says. “The agent who dealt with my non-fiction read my attempts, and sighed, deeply. Then I tried my hand at writing crime fiction, on the train, commuting to London. It all clicked. I knew what I had done was good. I changed my agent, and found a publisher.” The formula he’d discovered is a kind of historical fiction, rooted in the late 60s, and filled with cultural references. He calls it ‘cultural fiction’. Real characters from the era appear in the text: Sympathy opens with Brian Jones floating dead in his swimming pool; a young Felix Dennis helps police with their inquiries; Germaine Greer fleetingly appears. The main character, DS Cathal ‘Paddy’ Breen, is in his thirties. “This was before the generational ground zero we find ourselves in now,” says William. “In those days he would be considered middle-aged. And that makes him square. But it also gives him the ability to look at all that fab and groovy sixties stuff with a critical eye." As you’d imagine, there’s a murder at the beginning of the book, and as you’d imagine, there follow a lot of twists and turns before we find out who’s done it. All the real-life characters, and all the cultural references, act as a kind of smokescreen to make the tortuous plot seem more plausible. “Realism,” says William, “isn’t about being realistic. Real-life murders very rarely have an interesting narrative, and what really happens in the police incident room is very boring indeed. No, realism is the act of creating the illusion of reality.” I’ve disturbed William half-way through a writing session – he needs to do 1,000 words a day to meet a spring deadline for the first in a new series – and I can tell he’s itching to get back. The new book is set in contemporary times, and it’s unlikely to make his agent sigh. “Literary fiction doesn’t know what it is,” he concludes. “Sales are crashing. Crime fiction knows exactly what it is. And I think it’s the best platform we have to discuss the real issues - of class, of race, of gender - too.” Alex Leith All Saints, 20th Feb. William Shaw has also written the stand-alone contemporary-set crime novel The Birdwatcher. 33
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