Andrew Martin (Author)
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
Web links
- Literature by and about Andrew Martin in the WorldCat bibliographic database
- Andrew Martin , with Jim Stringer
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Martin, Andrew |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Martin, Andrew John (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | British writer |
DATE OF BIRTH | July 6, 1962 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | York |