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 several 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. He has also written the non-fiction book; How to Get Things Really Flat: A Man’s Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts.
Books in order of publication:
Bilton. Faber & Faber. 1999.
The Bobby Dazzlers. Faber & Faber. 2002.
The Yellow Diamond, Faber & Faber, 2015.
Soot, Corsair, 2017
The Martian Girl, Corsair, 2018
The Winker, Corsair, 2019
Jim Stringer Series:
The Necropolis Railway (Jim Stringer # 1) – 2002
The Blackpool Highflyer (Jim Stringer # 2) – 2004
The Lost Luggage Porter (Jim Stringer # 3) – 2006
Murder at Deviation Junction (Jim Stringer # 4) – 2007
Death on a Branch Line (Jim Stringer # 5) – 2008
The Last Train to Scarborough (Jim Stringer # 6) – 2009
The Somme Stations (Jim Stringer # 7) – 2011
The Baghdad Railway Club (Jim Stringer # 8) – 2012
Night Train to Jamalpur (Jim Stringer # 9) – 2013
Powder Smoke (Jim Stringer # 10) – 2021
Non-fiction
How to Get Things Really Flat: A Man’s Guide to Ironing, Dusting and Other Household Arts. Short Books. 2008.
Funny You Should Say That: A Compendium of Jokes, Quips and Quotations from Cicero to the Simpsons. Penguin 2006.
Ghoul Britannia, Notes on a Haunted Island. Short Books. 2009.
Underground, Overground: A Passenger’s History of the Tube. Profile Books. 2012.
Flight by Elephant, World War II’s most Daring Jungle Mission. Fourth Estate. 2013.
Belles & Whistles, Five Journeys Through Time on Britain’s Trains. Profile Books, 2014.
Night Trains, The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper, Profile Books, 2017
Seats of London: A Field Guide to London Transport Moquette Patterns, Safe Haven Books, 2019
Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain’s Heritage Railways, Profile Books, 2021
Métropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Métro, Little, Brown, 2023
To The Sea by Train, Profile Books, July 2025
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