Andrew Martin (born 6 July 1962) is an English novelist, rail historian, documentary maker, journalist and musician.
The Guardian claimed Bilton and The Bobby Dazzlers "rank high in the lists of the best comic novels published in the past 10 years".
[4] In 2015, he released The Yellow Diamond, A Crime of the Super-Rich, a detective novel set in London's Mayfair.
[6] Other non-fiction works include How to Get Things Really Flat;[7] Ghoul Britannia and Flight by Elephant about Gyles Mackrell and his Burmese, elephant-assisted wartime rescue mission, published in 2013.
His works for television and radio include: Between the Lines, Railways in Fiction and Film (2008),[8] Disappearing Dad, Fathers in Literature (2010),[9] The Trains that Time Forgot: Britain's Lost Railway Journeys (2015),[10] all in the Timeshift series, and three essay series for Radio 3, The Sound and The Fury (2013),[11] England Ejects (2014), The Further Realm (2015).