Andy Martin (author)

He scripted and produced the short film "Once Upon a Time in New York" in collaboration with Moving Content[2] and likewise "MML the Movie: Languages at Cambridge", directed by Will Frears with Norman Lomax.

He is the inventor of Becksistentialism ("Existentialism with a very cool haircut"), inspired by David Beckham's stint at Paris St Germain in 2013 and featured at Cambridge University's Festival of Ideas.

[4] His essay "The FBI Files on Being and Nothingness" was published by Prospect Magazine and based on a lecture given at the Maison française, Columbia University, New York, as part of its centenary celebrations.

[5] Martin is the author of several books, including Beware Invisible Cows (described by The Independent newspaper as 'a fantastic intellectual voyage, a real eye-opener'), Stealing the Wave (Bloomsbury, 2007), Napoleon the Novelist (Polity, 2001), Waiting for Bardot (Faber and Faber, 1996) and Walking on Water (John Murray and Minerva, 1992).

The Scotsman describes it as 'an elegant study, ... one of the most accessible and intelligent books on philosophy I have read this year, as alert to the human drama as the intellectual conflict, and unfailingly observant to the nuances and subtexts'.