Andrew Martin (novelist)

Andrew Martin (novelist)

Infobox Writer


name = Andrew Martin
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birthdate = Birth date and age|1962|7|6|df=y
birthplace =York, England
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occupation = Novelist
genre = Crime Fiction
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notableworks = "Jim Stringer"| influences =
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website = http://www.jimstringernovels.com/

Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist and journalist.

Martin was brought up in Yorkshire, studied at the University of 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. His series of detective novels about Jim Stringer, a railwayman reassigned to the North Eastern Railway Police in Edwardian England, includes "The Necropolis Railway", "The Blackpool Highflyer", "The Lost Luggage Porter", "Murder at Deviation Junction" and "Death on a Branch Line" "How to Get Things Really Flat".

Andrew Martin lives in North London with his wife, Lisa Freedman, and their two sons.

External links

* [http://www.jimstringernovels.com/ Andrew Martin's website]
* [http://books.guardian.co.uk/reviews/generalfiction/0,6121,1301805,00.html Review of "The Blackpool Highflyer"]
* [http://crimespace.ning.com/profiles/blog/show?id=537324%3ABlogPost%3A67998 Review of "The Lost Luggage Porter"]


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