Andrew Martin (Author)

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Andrew Martin (2015)

Andrew John Martin (born July 6, 1962 in York ) is a British writer.

Life

Andrew Martin studied law at Merton College , Oxford, and passed the barrister exam . Since then he has been working as a freelance journalist and writer. Martin writes for the Financial Times , among others .

Martin's first book was Bilton , a satire about his experiences in journalism. With The Bobby Dazzlers , he satirized the country and people of the north of England. Martin wrote a series of detective novels about railroad policeman Jim Stringer in northern England in the period before World War I. His non-fiction books include the title How to Get Things Really Flat: A Man's Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts and a report about a British escape from the Japanese by elephant in the British colony of Burma during World War II .

Martin also works for radio and television.

Martin lives with his family in north London.

Works

  • Bilton . London: Faber & Faber, 1998
  • The Bobby Dazzlers . London: Faber & Faber, 2002
  • The Yellow Diamond . London: Faber & Faber, 2015

Jim Stringer

  • The Necropolis Railway . London: Faber & Faber, 2002
  • The Blackpool Highflyer . London: Faber & Faber, 2005
  • The Lost Luggage Porter . London: Faber & Faber, 2007
  • Murder at Deviation Junction . London: Faber & Faber
  • Death on a Branch Line . London: Faber & Faber, 2008
  • The Last Train to Scarborough . London: Faber & Faber
  • The Somme Stations . London: Faber & Faber, 2011
  • The Baghdad Railway Club . London: Faber & Faber, 2012
  • Night Train to Jamalpur . London: Faber & Faber, 2014

Non-fiction

  • How to Get Things Really Flat: A Man's Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts . London: Short Books, 2008
  • Ghoul Britannia, Notes on a Haunted Island . London: Short Books, 2009
  • Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube . London: Profile Books, 2012
  • Flight by Elephant, World War II's most Daring Jungle Mission . Oxford: Isis, 2013

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personal data
SURNAME Martin, Andrew
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Martin, Andrew John (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British writer
DATE OF BIRTH July 6, 1962
PLACE OF BIRTH York