Andy Martin (author)

Andy Martin is a British author and academic. He is the author of several books, including Stealing the Wave (Bloomsbury, 2007), Napoleon the Novelist (Polity, 2001), Waiting for Bardot (Faber and Faber, 1996) and Walking on Water (Minerva, 1992). He is a lecturer in French at the Modern and Medieval Languages faculty at Cambridge University.

Walking on Water, Martin's first book on surfing, rapidly became a cult classic and was a runner-up for the Sports Book of The Year, 1991. Stealing the Wave: the epic struggle between Ken Bradshaw and Mark Foo was described as ‘the finest sports book I’ve ever read’ (Steve Bunce, BBC Radio) and an 'Awesome read!' (Newcastle Herald, Australia). The Telegraph newspaper hailed it as a 'terrific book'. Martin was the first surfing correspondent to The Times (London) and had the first ever surfing column in a major newspaper in Britain (the Independent on Sunday).

His forthcoming book, to be published by Simon and Schuster in 2009, boasts what may count as one of the strangest titles of all time: ‘Beware Invisible Cows: my search for the source of the universe’. He is currently working on a project entitled ‘What It Feels Like To Be Alive’

Links:

http://andymartinthewriter.com/