Andrew Martin is a prolific author of fiction and non-fiction books, some with a railway theme. His previous railway books for Profile are Underground, Overground, Night Trains, Belles & Whistles and Steam Trains Today. He is also the author of Seats of London, about the seat coverings (or moquette) on London Tubes and buses. Powder Smoke, the tenth title in Andrew”s award-winning series of novels featuring the railway policeman, Jim Stringer, was published recently in paperback. (Other titles in this series include The Necropolis Railway, Death on a Branch Line, The Last Train to Scarborough.) Andrew”s memoir, Yorkshire – There and Back, is out now in hardback. His website is at jimstringernovels.com.
49 电子书 Andrew Martin
Andrew Martin: Murder at Deviation Junction
The latest in Andrew Martin's much-loved 'Jim Stringer, Steam Detective' series. 'Andrew Martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world . . . Terrific.' Daily Teleg …
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Andrew Martin: Death on a Branch Line
It is the summer of 1911 and as Britain is gripped by paranoia about German spies and secret preparations for war, railway detective Jim Stringer decides to set out for a much-needed holiday. But bef …
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Andrew Martin: Last Train to Scarborough
A riveting new adventure for Jim Stringer, Andrew Martin's celebrated 'Steam Detective'. It is March 1914, and Jim Stringer is uneasy about his next assignment. It's not so much t …
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Andrew Martin: Necropolis Railway
'A brilliant murder mystery set in Edwardian London about a railway line that runs only to a massive cemetery.' Daily Mirror When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry Lond …
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Andrew Martin: Blackpool Highflyer
'A steamy whodunnit . . . This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.' Independent on Sunday'Genuinely gripping . . . The sort of thing D. H. Lawrence might hav …
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Andrew Martin: Lost Luggage Porter
'Unerringly sharp and pioneeringly original, it locks the reader in from start to finish.' Andrew Barrow, Spectator Winter, 1906. It's Jim Stringer's first day as an official rail …
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Andrew Martin: Somme Stations
On the first day of the Somme enlisted railwayman Jim Stringer lies trapped in a shell hole, smoking cigarette after cigarette under the bullets and the blazing sun. He calculates his chances of surv …
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Andrew Martin: Baghdad Railway Club
Baghdad 1917. Captain Jim Stringer, invalided from the Western Front, has been dispatched to investigate what looks like a nasty case of treason. He arrives to find a city on the point of insurrectio …
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Andrew Martin: Night Train to Jamalpur
North East India, 1923. On the broiling Night Mail from Calcutta to Jamalpur, a man is shot dead in a first class compartment. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer was sleeping in the next compartment al …
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Andrew Martin: Yellow Diamond
Detective Superintendent George Quinn – Mayfair resident and dandy with a razor-sharp brain – has set up a new police unit, dedicated to investigating the super-rich. When he is shot in mysterious ci …
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William Golding: Paper Men
Join an eccentric novelist on the run from his obsessive would-be biographer in this comic farce by the radical Nobel Laureate and author of Lord of the Flies. Why should I conceal the fact that I ha …
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Andrew Martin & George Ross: The Brave New World of European Labor
European union movements played a central role in promoting a ‘Europeanmodel of society’, a humane industrial relations system, high labor standards, generous welfare states, and collective political …
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Martin Andrew: Ghoul Britannia
In this engrossing new book, Martin searches out the dark corners of our subconscious in an attempt to explain our most deep-seated fears – why, despite famously being a nation of cynics, we just can …
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Andrew Martin: Flight By Elephant
The incredible story of Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission.In the summer of 1942, Gyles Mackrell – a decorated First World War pilot and tea plantation overseer, …
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Jon Erik Dolvik & Andrew Martin: European Social Models From Crisis to Crisis:
Europeans use ‘social models’ to refer to the combination of welfare state, industrial relations, and educational institutions jointly structuring what we can think of as the supply-side of the labor …
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Andrew Martin: Blackpool Highflyer
“A compelling thriller” set against the historical backdrop of Edwardian England’s railway system (Daily Mail). Assigned to drive holidaymakers to the seaside resort of Black …
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Andrew Martin: Necropolis Railway
Bright and ambitious, young Jim Stringer moves from the English countryside to London deter- mined to become a railway man. It is 1903, the dawn of the Edwardian age, when steam runs the nation and t …
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Christopher Allen & Stephen Bornstein: Unions and Economic Crisis
First published in 1984. This book represents a major study of union responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Abjuring governmental or managerial outlooks, it argues that unions, as r …
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Christopher Allen & Stephen Bornstein: Unions and Economic Crisis
First published in 1984. This book represents a major study of union responses to the economic crisis of the 1970s and 1980s. Abjuring governmental or managerial outlooks, it argues that unions, as r …
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Andrew Martin: Soot
‘An enticing and clever book, inside and out’ Book Of The Month – The Times York, 1799. In August, an artist is found murdered in his home – stabbed with a pair of scissors. Matthew Harvey’s death is …
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Andrew Martin: Martian Girl: A London Mystery
‘Ingeniously constructed . . . Andrew Martin’s wry, amused tone is a constant joy . . . An altogether superior performance, The Martian Girl is a violent, funny, deadly serious entertainment’ Irish T …
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Andrew Martin: Winker
‘A highly enjoyable game of cat-and-mouse with perfect period texture and some nicely wry humour’ The Guardian’This playful caper is equally successful as a detailed, culture-rich evocation of its pe …
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Andrew Martin: Belles and Whistles
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Sc …
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Andrew Martin: Night Trains
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham G …
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Andrew Martin: Underground, Overground
Why is the Victoria Line so hot? What is an Electrical Multiple Unit? Is it really possible to ride from King’s Cross to King’s Cross on the Circle line? The London Underground is the oldest, most sp …
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Liqun Chen & Andrew Martin: Trusted Computing
Thisvolumecontainsthe15paperspresentedinthetechnicalstrandofthe Trust 2009 conference, held in Oxford, UK in April 2009. Trust 2009 was the second international conference devoted to the technical an …
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Andrew Martin: Funny You Should Say That
‘A fool and his words are soon parted’ wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that ‘A wit and his words are rarely collected’. Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the funniest remarks, …
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Andrew Martin: How To Motivate Your Child For School
A positive, practical guide for parents who want to help their children be the best they can be at school – and beyond.Do you worry that your child has no interest in schoolwork? Is your child reluct …
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Andrew Martin: How To Help Your Child Fly Through Life
Childcare? Exams? Coaching? Make the right decisions with this commonsense guide packed with balanced, positive and practical advice on 20 of the biggest issues facing parents and their children.Are …
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Andrew Martin: Il delitto dell’artista maledetto
Il viso dell’assassino è nascosto dietro uno dei ritratti della vittima York, 1799. Nel caldo torrido del mese di agosto, l’artista Matthew Harvey viene ritrovato ucciso in casa sua, pugnalato con un …
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Martin Andrew R. Martin & Ph.D. Matthew Mihalka Ph.D.: Music around the World
With entries on topics ranging from non-Western instruments to distinctive rhythms of music from various countries, this one-stop resource on global music also promotes appreciation of other countrie …
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Andrew Martin: Powder Smoke
‘A great deal of well-researched railway detail [and] killer lines, without which no Andrew Martin novel is complete’ Irish Times On a chilly December evening in 1925, while walking to meet his wife …
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Andrew Martin & Ray Funk: Steelpan in Education
Founded by Al O’Connor in 1973, the steelband program at Northern Illinois University was the first of its kind in the United States. Thanks to the talent and dedication of O’Connor, Cliff Alexis, Li …
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Andrew Martin: Steam Trains Today
‘A delightful book … the perfect companion as you wait for the 8.10 from Hove’ Observer After the Beeching cuts of the 1960s, many railways were gradually shut down. Rural communities were isolated …
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William H. Dutton & Paul W. Jeffreys: World Wide Research
Experts examine ways in which the use of increasingly powerful and versatile digital information and communication technologies are transforming research activities across all disciplines.Advances in …
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Ray Funk & Andrew Martin: Steelpan in Education
Founded by Al O’Connor in 1973, the steelband program at Northern Illinois University was the first of its kind in the United States. Thanks to the talent and dedication of O’Connor, Cliff Alexis, Li …
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€192.49
Michael Hausenblas & Andrew Martin: Hacking Kubernetes
Want to run your Kubernetes workloads safely and securely? This practical book provides a threat-based guide to Kubernetes security. Each chapter examines a particular component’s architecture and po …
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Michael Hausenblas & Andrew Martin: Hacking Kubernetes
Want to run your Kubernetes workloads safely and securely? This practical book provides a threat-based guide to Kubernetes security. Each chapter examines a particular component’s architecture and po …
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Andrew Martin: Yorkshire
In Yorkshire: There and Back, Andrew Martin celebrates Britain’s most charismatic county, looking back at the Yorkshire of his 1970s childhood and as it is today.Journeying to every historic corner, …
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Andrew Martin: Train Teasers
When was smoking banned on trains? Which actor restored kippers to the menu of the Brighton Belle? What regular lineside event did Dickens describe as ‘a shave in the air’? Perfect for a trivia night …
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Andrew Martin: Metropolitain
‘An utterly enjoyable voyage under Paris’ – THE OLDIE’Delightful and diverting… Martin is the most unpretentious and companionable of guides; the book is great fun’ – LITERARY REVIEW’An eclectic bl …
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Annabelle Martin: Troll and Mouse
Underneath a farmer’s house there lived a clever tailor mouse. His dream would soon be coming true, but first he had a job to do… The brave little mouse finally shows himself to the frightened farm …
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Norman Bentwich & Andrew Martin: Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations
First published in 1950, A Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations presents a collection of documentary material detailing various aspects of the UN Charter. It discusses themes like the evol …
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Norman Bentwich & Andrew Martin: Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations
First published in 1950, A Commentary on the Charter of the United Nations presents a collection of documentary material detailing various aspects of the UN Charter. It discusses themes like the evol …
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€64.09
Andrew Martin: Cool for America
A hilarious collection of overlapping stories that explores the dark zone between artistic ambition and its achievement by the author of Early Work.Bookended by the misadventures of Leslie, an aspiri …
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Andrew Martin: To the Sea by Train
Throughout the summer months of the twentieth century, the seaside service posters of the London & North Eastern Railway promised fresh air and frivolity to millions with the phrase: ‘To the sea by t …
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