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. But not this one…

My novel, ‘The Night in Venice’ (written as AJ Martin and published by Weidenfeld), is currently part of an Amazon ebook promotion - it’s 99p for all of August.

My book, ‘To The Sea by Train: the Golden Age of Railway Travel’, was published by Profile on 31 July.

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

I have contributed an essay on Station Gardens to ‘The Untold Railway Stories’, to be published in September by Duckworth.

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.

I will be appearing at the Cheltenham Literature Festival with Tom Cheshire, author of Slow Trains Around Britain, on 16 October. Details to follow.