Thanks for visiting this site. I am the author of numerous articles and books - of both fiction and non-fiction. Some of my books are about railways.

NEWS

On the evening of March 19th, I will be giving a short talk about railway posters at a shop called Twentieth Century Posters in Islington. It’s free to attend, and there will be wine. See here to book.

At 2pm on 26th March, I will be speaking about my book, To The Sea by Train, at the Oxford Literary Festival. To book, see here.

On 26th April, I will be at the Hexham Book Festival, in conversation with Harry Pearson about To The Sea by Train. To book, see here.

BOOKS

My novella, The Moquette Mystery, is published in October by Safe Haven. It’s set in summer 1938, in London, Halifax, the Isle of Wight and Oxford. It features May Mitton, a young Yorkshire woman, who undertakes to solve a murder, equipped with a clue given to her by a policeman: a piece of cloth cut from a seat on a train…

My book, ‘To The Sea by Train: the Golden Age of Railway Travel’, is out in hardback from Profile.

My novel, ‘The Night in Venice’ (written as AJ Martin and published by Weidenfeld), is out in paperback.

I have contributed an essay on Station Gardens to ‘The Untold Railway Stories’, just out from Duckworth.

I write a weekly Substack called Reading On Trains. It’s (loosely) about railways. See the link at the top of this page.

I also write pop songs, and I have set up a music project called Brunswick Green. (The link is to some songs and home-made films on YouTube.) My music is also on Soundcloud and Spotify.