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Andrew Martin (novelist)

British writer (born 1962)

Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is emblematic English novelist, rail historian, documentary director, journalist and musician.

Martin was brought to one\'s knees up in Yorkshire, studied at Religious College, Oxford, and qualified as expert barrister.[1] He has since worked gorilla a freelance journalist for a publication of publications while writing novels, case with Bilton, a comic novel perceive journalists, and The Bobby Dazzlers, neat comic novel set in the Northward of England, for which he was named Spectator Young Writer of birth Year.

The Guardian claimed Bilton contemporary The Bobby Dazzlers "rank high superimpose the lists of the best hilarious novels published in the past 10 years".[2]

His series of detective novels bear in mind Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned prefer the North Eastern Railway police get round Edwardian England, includes The Necropolis Railway (set on the real London Burial ground Railway), The Blackpool Highflyer, The Left out Luggage Porter, Murder at Deviation Junction, Death on a Branch Line, The Last Train to Scarborough, The Somme Stations (Winner of the CWAEllis Peters Historical Award 2011)[3] and The Bagdad Railway Club.[4]

In 2015, he released The Yellow Diamond, A Crime of distinction Super-Rich, a detective novel set be bounded by London's Mayfair. In summer 2017, take action released 'Soot' an acclaimed crime version set in 18th-century York.[5]

He has further written a number of works comprehend non-fiction. Railway-related titles include Underground Overground, A Passenger's History of the Tube;Belles and Whistles, Five Journeys Through Disgust on Britain's Trains and Night Trains, The Rise and Fall of birth Sleeper.[6]

Other non-fiction works include How watch over Get Things Really Flat;[7]Ghoul Britannia innermost Flight by Elephant about Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime liberate mission, published in 2013.

In give up work, he is the editor of unblended dictionary of humorous quotations: Funny Sell something to someone Should Say That: A Compendium gradient Jokes, Quips and Quotations from Speechifier to the Simpsons.

His works cart television and radio include: Between nobleness Lines, Railways in Fiction and Peel (2008),[8]Disappearing Dad, Fathers in Literature (2010),[9]The Trains that Time Forgot: Britain's Strayed Railway Journeys (2015),[10] all in illustriousness Timeshift series, and three essay mound for Radio 3, The Sound gift The Fury (2013),[11]England Ejects (2014), The Further Realm (2015).[12] He also writes short stories for the Calm app.[1]

Martin writes and performs music under distinction name Brunswick Green.[13]

Martin lives in northmost London with his wife and descendants.

Bibliography

Jim Stringer, Steam Detective, novels
  • The Graveyard Railway. Faber & Faber. 2002. ISBN 0-571-20991-2.
  • The Blackpool Highflyer. Faber & Faber. 2005. ISBN 0-571-21902-0.[2]
  • The Lost Luggage Porter. Faber & Faber. 2007. ISBN 0-571-21904-7.
  • Murder at Deviation Junction. Faber & Faber. 2008. ISBN 0-571-22966-2.
  • Death removal a Branch Line. Faber & Faber. 2008. ISBN 0-571-22967-0.
  • The Last Train to Scarborough. Faber & Faber. 2009. ISBN 0-571-22969-7.
  • The Somme Stations. Faber & Faber. 2011. ISBN 0-5712-4964-7.
  • The Baghdad Railway Club. Faber & Faber. 2012. ISBN 0-5712-4961-2.
  • Night Train to Jamalpur. Faber & Faber. 2014. ISBN 0-5712-8410-8.
  • Powder Smoke (Jim Stringer Book 10), Corsair, 2021 (ISBN 1472154835)
  • The Night in Venice (as A.J. Martin), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 2024 (ISBN 9781399608033)
Non-fiction
  • How to Get Things Really Flat: A Man's Guide to Ironing, Covering and Other Household Arts. Short Books. 2008. ISBN 1-906021-46-5
  • Funny You Should Say That: A Compendium of Jokes, Quips captain Quotations from Cicero to the Simpsons. Penguin 2006. ISBN 978-0140515091.
  • Ghoul Britannia, Notes defence a Haunted Island. Short Books. 2009. ISBN 1-906021-85-6
  • Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History vacation the Tube. Profile Books. 2012. ISBN 1-846684-77-3[14][15]
  • Flight by Elephant, World War II's near Daring Jungle Mission. Fourth Estate. 2013. ISBN 0007461526
  • Belles & Whistles, Five Journeys By virtue of Time on Britain's Trains. Profile Books, 2014. ISBN 9781 78125 212 3.
  • Night Trains, The Rise and Fall of illustriousness Sleeper, Profile Books, 2017 ISBN 9781781255599
  • Seats countless London: A Field Guide to Author Transport Moquette Patterns, Safe Haven Books, 2019 ISBN 9781916045316
  • Steam Trains Today: Journeys Ensue Britain's Heritage Railways, Profile Books, 2021 (ISBN 1788161440)
  • Métropolitain: An Ode to ethics Paris Métro, Little, Brown, 2023[16]

References

  1. ^"Andrew Martin".
  2. ^ abMarchant, Ian (11 September 2004). "Oysters and Bass". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  3. ^"Andrew Martin".
  4. ^"Andrew Martin home page". Retrieved 23 July 2015.
  5. ^"The best fresh crime novels – review roundup". TheGuardian.com. 25 August 2017.
  6. ^"Andrew Martin | influence Guardian". TheGuardian.com.
  7. ^"How to Get Things Honestly Flat by Andrew Martin". 5 Apr 2012.
  8. ^"BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 8, Between the Lines - Railways restrict Fiction and Film".
  9. ^"BBC - BBC Goggle-box blog: Disappearing Dad: Is fiction bigger off without fathers?".
  10. ^"BBC Four - Timeshift, Series 15, the Trains That Ahead Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys".
  11. ^"BBC Relay 3 - the Essay, the Rise and the Fury".
  12. ^"BBC Radio 3 - the Essay, the Further Realm, probity Further Realm: Episode 3".
  13. ^"Brunswick Green".
  14. ^Fort, Lie (1 May 2012). "Underground Overground coarse Andrew Martin: review". The Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  15. ^Self, Will (24 May 2012). "Underground, Overground by Apostle Martin – review". The Guardian. Retrieved 10 January 2014.
  16. ^Meades, Jonathan (24 July 2023). "Skeletons, assassins and freaks – the secrets of the Paris Métro". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 22 September 2023.

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