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The Winker by Andrew Martin
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'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... -
Early Work by Andrew Martin
RRP: £18.00Booksplease Price: £12.16For young writers of a certain temperament-if they haven't had such notions beaten out of them by MFA programs and the Internet-the delusion persists that great writing must be sought in what W. B... -
Alekhine's Defence by Andrew Martin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.05Alekhine's Defence is a sharp and often underrated counter to 1 e4. Black immediately challenges the white e-pawn and tries to lure White into constructing a big central position. Black's hope is... -
The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £6.30On 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... -
The Sicilian Dragon by Andrew Martin
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £12.52Andrew Martin studies this famous opening in a simplistic way, introducing the crucial initial moves and ideas and taking care to explain the reasoning behind them, something that has sometimes been... -
The Winker by Andrew Martin 9781472153975
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'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... -
Yorkshire: There and Back Andrew Martin 9781472154859
RRP: £20.00Booksplease Price: £14.31In 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,... -
Powder Smoke Andrew Martin 9781472154842
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'A great deal of well-researched railway detail [and] killer lines, without which no Andrew Martin novel is complete' Irish TimesOn a chilly December evening in 1925, while walking to meet his wife... -
Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95A train hits a snow drift in the frozen Cleveland Hills. In the process of clearing the line a body is discovered, and so begins a dangerous case for struggling Edwardian railway detective, Jim... -
Yorkshire: There and Back Andrew Martin 9781472154873
RRP: £15.99Booksplease Price: £11.75In 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,... -
The Lost Luggage Porter by Andrew Martin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95York, Winter, 1906 - two brothers have been shot to death. Meanwhile, Jim Stringer meets the Lost Luggage Porter, humblest among the employees of the North Eastern Railway company. He tells Jim a... -
The Last Train to Scarborough by Andrew Martin
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £7.31One night, in a private boarding house in Scarborough, a railwayman vanishes, leaving his belongings behind...It is the eve of the Great War, and Jim Stringer, railway detective, is uneasy about his... -
Night Train to Jamalpur by Andrew Martin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.47North 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... -
Powder Smoke Andrew Martin 9781472154835
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.56York railway station, December, 1925. Detective Inspector Jim Stringer is enjoying a pint in the Parlour Bar before accompanying his wife, Lydia, to a charitable function. But when the couple meet at... -
The Baghdad Railway Club by Andrew Martin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.42Baghdad 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... -
The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin 9780156030687
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.09Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030687Author Andrew MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 246Imprint -
Desire Paths by Andrew Martin 9781913767099
RRP: £9.11Booksplease Price: £8.70Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913767099Author Andrew MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 72Imprint -
Death on a Branch Line by Andrew Martin
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £7.95It's the sweltering summer of 1911, and one Friday evening a young aristocrat arrives into the custody of detective Jim Stringer, a man recently found guilty of murdering his father in the sleepy... -
Down Time by Andrew Martin 9780374617066
RRP: £28.00Booksplease Price: £17.05Sorry no description is available for this book at this time. -
The Moquette Mystery Andrew Martin 9781068516245
RRP: £9.99Booksplease Price: £8.22A young Northern woman called May is working in the fabrics department of a grand London department store when a detective comes in, clutching a scrap of fabric. Any idea what this is . . ? May's ... -
To the Sea by Train Andrew Martin 9781805221555
RRP: £18.99Booksplease Price: £14.07'Andrew Martin is a railway wizard' Telegraph 'Leaves you with renewed confidence that trains can still be the most civilised way to travel' Financial Times Throughout the twentieth century,... -
Shoals of Starlings by Andrew Martin 9781913767075
RRP: £7.00Booksplease Price: £6.89Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781913767075Author Andrew MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 78Imprint -
Play the O'Kelly Sicilian by Andrew Martin 9781781946244
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11The O'Kelly variation of the Sicilian Defence (1 e4 c5 2 Nf3 a6) is a wonderful system for those who enjoy playing Sicilian positions but don't want to get bogged down in heavy theory. The O'Kelly... -
The Lost Luggage Porter by Andrew Martin 9780156030748
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £13.80Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156030748Author Andrew MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 320Imprint -
Play the Budapest Gambit Andrew Martin 9781781945889
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.49The Budapest Gambit (1 d4 Nf6 2 c4 e5) is an aggressive, dynamic approach for meeting 1 d4 and is a great line for throwing opponents onto their own resources. It is certainly double-edged as Black... -
Murder at Deviation Junction by Andrew Martin 9780156034456
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £13.21Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780156034456Author Andrew MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 249Imprint -
Without Fear or Favour by Andrew Martin 9781915223388
RRP: £14.99Booksplease Price: £14.37Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9781915223388Author Andrew MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 244Imprint -
The Martian Girl: A London Mystery by Andrew Martin
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £3.39'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... -
Cool for America: Stories by Andrew Martin 9781250798640
RRP: £12.99Booksplease Price: £10.90Cool for America is bookended by the misadventures of Leslie, a young woman first introduced in Early Work, who moves from New York to Missoula, Montana, to try to draw herself out of a lingering... -
Play the Barry Attack Andrew Martin 9781781946947
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.49The Barry Attack is a highly aggressive system that arises after 1 d4 Nf6 2 Nf3 g6 3 Nc3 d5 4 Bf4. Although the concept of the Barry Attack has been known for a century or so, the modern... -
First Steps: The Queen's Gambit by Andrew Martin
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11The Queen's Gambit is one of the great classical openings. All the world champions and elite players have played this opening - most of them for both sides. In this book the highly experienced coach... -
The Lost City of Scioto by Andrew Martin 9780557547333
Booksplease Price: £5.45Apologies but we at Booksplease don't have a full description for this book.Book InformationISBN 9780557547333Author Andrew MartinFormat PaperbackPage Count 60Imprint -
The Paper Men: With an introduction by Andrew Martin by William Golding
RRP: £8.99Booksplease Price: £6.67Fame, success, fortune, a drink problem slipping over the edge into alcoholism, a dead marriage, the incurable itches of middle-aged lust. For Wilfred Barclay, novelist, the final unbearable... -
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro Andrew Martin 9781472157904
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £8.02'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... -
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin 9781472157881
RRP: £16.99Booksplease Price: £12.38'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... -
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The Somme Stations by Andrew Martin 9780571249640 [USED COPY]
RRP: £10.99Booksplease Price: £1.98On 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... -
First Steps: The King's Indian Defence by Andrew Martin
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11The King's Indian Defence is one of the great classical counter-attacking openings. The most aggressive world champions (including Mikhail Tal, Bobby Fischer and Garry Kasparov) have all scored... -
The Martian Girl: A London Mystery by Andrew Martin 9781472152466
RRP: £4.99Booksplease Price: £4.01'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... -
First Steps: Caro-Kann Defence by Andrew Martin
RRP: £17.99Booksplease Price: £14.11The Caro-Kann Defence arises after the moves 1 e4 c6. With this first move Black (as is also the case with the French Defence - 1 e4 e6) plans 2 ... d5, establishing a well-protected central pawn... -
Play the French with 3...dxe4 by Andrew Martin 9781781947081
RRP: £19.99Booksplease Price: £15.49The variation of the French that starts 1 e4 e6 2 d4 d5 3 Nc3 (or 3 Nd2) 3 ... dxe4 is often called the Rubinstein Variation. It is a great way to simplify the position and ensure that the middlegame...