Andrew Martin
Novelist, Author
1962 –
Who is Andrew Martin?
Andrew Martin is an English novelist and journalist.
Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at Merton College, Oxford and qualified as a barrister. He has since worked as a freelance journalist 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 high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the past 10 years".
His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the London and South Western Railway police in Edwardian England, includes The 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 and The Baghdad Railway Club.
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- Born
- Jul 6, 1962
York - Nationality
- England
- Profession
- Education
- University of Oxford
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on July 23, 2013
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