Librarian Note: There is more than one author in the Goodreads database with this name. Martin Shaw is an English actor. According to him, his first stage appearance was at age three, during an amateur show in which his parents were performing. At Great Barr School,Shaw excelled in English literature and drama lessons. At sixteen, he was offered a scholarship to a Birmingham drama school. Declining the scholarship, he left school and, on the advice of his parents, he sought employment. At eighteen, Shaw moved to London to attend the London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art. He served his apprenticeship in repertory as an assistant stage manager at the Queen's Theatre, Hornchurch and the Bristol Old Vic. He has narrated dozens of audioboo via goodreads