Andrew (AJ) Martin is the author of over thirty books, divided almost equally between fiction and non-fiction. His novels have usually been in the historical crime genre and include the ten ‘Jim Stringer’ novels, featuring an early 20th Century railway policeman. The Somme Stations in that series won the CWA Ellis Peters Award for Historical Crime Fiction in 2011. Soot, set in late 18th Century York, was a Times Book of the Month in 2017. His latest novel (published as AJ Martin) is The Night in Venice, a psychological thriller set in Venice in 1911.
His non-fiction has sometimes had a railway theme. It includes Night Trains: the Rise and Fall of the Sleeper and Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro. His memoir, Yorkshire: There and Back was published in 2022. He is currently working on a book about trains to the seaside. Andrew Martin also writes journalism, including (even though he lives in North London) a column in The Yorkshire Dalesman magazine, and pop songs under the name Brunswick Green.
