Rip it Up and Start Again
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A fantastic tribute to an amazingly creative musical period . . . An instant pop classic, worthy of a place on your shelves beside the handful of music books that really matter. John McTernan, Scotland on Sunday Punk revitalized rock in the mid-seventies, but the movement soon degenerated into (...)
How We Live and Why We Die
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How do we move, think and remember? Why do we get ill, age and die? Distinguished biologist Lewis Wolpert explains how cells provide the answers to the fundamental questions about our lives.Cells are the basis of all life in the universe. Our bodies are made up of billions of them: an incredibly (...)
Death on a Branch Line
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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 before he can leave he finds himself escorting a young aristocrat, Hugh Lambert, who is on his way to be (...)
Murder at Deviation Junction
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The latest in Andrew Martin s much-loved Jim Stringer, Steam Detective series. Andrew Martin has recreated an extraordinarily convincing world . . . Terrific. Daily TelegraphDecember, 1909. A train hits a snowdrift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is (...)
The Lost Luggage Porter
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Unerringly sharp and pioneeringly original, it locks the reader in from start to finish. Andrew Barrow, SpectatorWinter, 1906. It s Jim Stringer s first day as an official railway detective, but he s not a happy man.As the rain falls incessantly on the city s ancient streets, the local paper (...)
The Blackpool Highflyer
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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 have written had he been less verbose or been blessed with a sense of humour. Peter Parker, Evening Standard (Books (...)
The Necropolis Railway
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A brilliant murder mystery set in Edwardian London about a railway line that runs only to a massive cemetery. Daily MirrorWhen railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. The men he works alongside have (...)
Molly Fox's Birthday
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Dublin. Midsummer. While absent in New York, the celebrated actor Molly Fox has loaned her house to a playwright friend, who is struggling to write a new work. Over the course of this, the longest day of the year, the playwright reflects upon her own life, Molly s, and that of their mutual friend (...)
The Dead Yard
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Jamaica used to be the source of much of Britain s wealth, an island where slaves grew sugar and the money flowed in vast quantities. It was a tropical paradise for the planters, a Babylonian exile for the Africans shipped to the Caribbean. It became independent in 1962.Jamaica is now a country in (...)
When the Lights Went Ou
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The seventies are probably the most important and fascinating period in modern British political history. They encompass strikes that brought down governments, shock general election results, the rise of Margaret Thatcher and the fall of Edward Heath, the IMF crisis, the Winter of Discontent and (...)