- Eddy Shah
Eddy Shah (also Eddie Shah) (born
January 20 ,1944 ) is aManchester -based businessman, the founder of the then technologically-advanced UKnewspaper "Today" and of the extremely short-lived tabloid "The Post", and current owner of theMessenger Group [ [http://observer.guardian.co.uk/magazine/story/0,,810845,00.html What happened next?] ] .Shah was born in Cambridge of an English mother with Spanish and Irish blood, and a father of Persian origin, but brought up in India. Shah was educated at a Scottish co-educational independent boarding school,
Gordonstoun , and at bothHaywards Heath Grammar School andHaywards Heath Secondary Modern School , at Haywards Heath in Sussex. He then attended a Brighton crammer, where he obtained seven GCE 'O' Levels.Shah is also the author of several novels: "The Lucy Ghosts" (1991), "Ring of Red Roses" (
1992 ), "Manchester Blue" (1993), and "Fallen Angels" (1994 ).He was the first businessman to confront the power of trade unionism, at his Warrington print works and Manchester news offices, in 1982. As the owner of six local newspapers, he defeated the print unions after national strikes that went on for seven months - despite violent picketing and receiving death threats. He was the first person to invoke
Margaret Thatcher 's Industrial Laws to bring the unions to the bargaining table.Fleet Street followed three years later by de-unionising.He now owns and runs golf courses, leisure centres and hotels, including the Wiltshire Golf and Country Club,
Wootton Bassett . He is building 44 holiday homes with his wife, actress Jennifer White Shah [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0924953 Jennifer White Shah] ] , at the Wiltshire [ [http://www.the-wiltshire.co.uk The Wiltshire] ] .After withdrawing from writing after his last book, 'I was tired of spy thrillers, was not in the class of the real Masters like Le Carre and Forsyth, and wanted to write about the future', Shah has now written a novel called "Second World" and is to be published by PanMacMillan on November 7th, 2008. The novel, in thriller form, is a look at the expanding world of cyber world and looks at where "Alpha World" and "Second Life" will be in the future. He sees the world being dominated by the MetaVerse, a place where mankind will exercise its best and its worst.
Eddy Shah's author web site is 'www.eddyshah.com.'
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