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British writer (born )

Andrew Martin (born 6 July ) is an English novelist, rail historian, documentary maker, journalist and musician.

Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford, and qualified as a barrister.^[1] He has since worked as a freelance reporter for a number of publications while writing novels, starting with Bilton, a comic novel about journalists, and The Bobby Dazzlers, a comic novel set in the North of England, for which he was named Spectator Young Writer of the Year.

The Guardian claimed Bilton and The Bobby Dazzlers "rank lofty in the lists of the best comic novels published in the past 10 years".^[2]

His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the North Eastern Railway police in Edwardian England, includes The Necropolis Railway (set on the real London Necropolis Railway), The Blackpool Highflyer, The Lost 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 )^[3] and The Baghdad Railway Club.^[4]

In , he released The Yellow Diamond, A Crime of the Super-Rich, a detective novel set in London's Mayfair.

In summer , he released 'Soot' an acclaimed crime novel put in 18th-century York.^[5]

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

Other non-fiction works comprise How to Get Things Really Flat;^[7]Ghoul Britannia and Flight by Elephant about Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission, published in

In addition, he is the editor of a dictionary of humorous quotations: Funny You Should Say That: A Compendium of Jokes, Quips and Quotations from Cicero to the Simpsons.

His works for television and radio include: Between the Lines, Railways in Fiction and Film (),^[8]Disappearing Dad, Fathers in Literature (),^[9]The Trains that Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys (),^[10] all in the Timeshift series, and three essay series for Radio 3, The Sound and The Fury (),^[11]England Ejects (), The Further Realm ().^[12] He also writes small stories for the Calm app.[1]

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

Martin lives in north London with his wife and sons.

Bibliography

Jim Stringer, Steam Detective, novels

• The Necropolis Railway.

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• The Blackpool Highflyer. Faber & Faber. ISBN&#;^[2]
• The Lost Luggage Porter. Faber & Faber. ISBN&#;
• Murder at Deviation Junction.

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• Death on a Branch Line.
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• The Last Train to Scarborough. Faber & Faber. ISBN&#;
• The Somme Stations. Faber & Faber. ISBN&#;
• The Baghdad Railway Club.
  Andrew Martin born 6 July is an English novelist, rail historian, documentary maker, journalist and musician. Martin was brought up in Yorkshirestudied at Merton College, Oxfordand qualified as a barrister. The Guardian claimed Bilton and The Bobby Dazzlers "rank high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the past 10 years". In summerhe released 'Soot' an acclaimed crime novel set in 18th-century York.

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• Night Train to Jamalpur. Faber & Faber. ISBN&#;
• Powder Smoke (Jim Stringer Book 10), Corsair, (ISBN )
• The Night in Venice (as A.J. Martin), Weidenfeld & Nicolson, (ISBN )

Non-fiction

• How to Get Things Really Flat: A Man's Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts.

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• Funny You Should State That: A Compendium of Jokes, Quips and Quotations from Cicero to the Simpsons.
  Andrew Martin is a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction books, some with a railway theme. He is also the author of Seats of Londonabout the seat coverings or moquette on London Tubes and buses. Powder Smokethe tenth title in Andrew's award-winning series of novels featuring the railway policeman, Jim Stringer, was published recently in paperback. Andrew's memoir, Yorkshire — There and Backis out now in hardback.

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• Ghoul Britannia, Notes on a Haunted Island. Short Books. ISBN&#;
• Underground, Overground: A Passenger's History of the Tube. Profile Books.
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• Flight by Elephant, Society War II's most Daring Jungle Mission. Fourth Estate. ISBN&#;
• Belles & Whistles, Five Journeys Through Day on Britain's Trains. Profile Books, ISBN&#; 3.
• Night Trains, The Go up and Fall of the Sleeper, Profile Books, ISBN&#;
• Seats of London: A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns, Safe Haven Books, ISBN&#;
• Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain's Heritage Railways, Profile Books, (ISBN )
• Métropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Métro, Petty, Brown, ^[16]

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