Product Description
Adrian Day and Martyn Bilton are two young journalists adrift in the "New Globe", Britain's biggest newspaper. After The Incident (involving a cup of coffee, the Prime Minister, and the exploitation of the working class) an explosion of hype threatens to blow Bilton onto a much larger stage.
About the Author
Andrew Martin, a former
Spectator Young Writer of the Year, grew up in Yorkshire. After qualifying as a barrister he became a freelance journalist in which capacity he has tended to write about the north, class, trains, seaside towns and eccentric individuals rather than the doings of the famous, although he did once loop the loop in a biplane with Gary Numan. He has also learned to drive steam locomotives, albeit under very close supervision. He has written for the
Guardian, the
Daily Telegraph, the
Independent on Sunday and
Granta, among many other publications, and his weekly column appears in the
New Statesman. His highly acclaimed first novel,
Bilton, described by Jon Ronson as 'enormously funny, genuinely moving and even a little scary', was followed by
The Bobby Dazzlers, which Tim Lott hailed as 'truly unusual a comic novel that actually makes you laugh'. In praise of his most recent novel,
The Necropolis Railway, the
Evening Standard said 'the age of steam has rarely been better evoked', while the Mirror described the book as 'a brilliant murder mystery'.
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