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Belles and Whistles: Five Journeys Through Time on Britain's Trains by Andrew Martin
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
In the heroic days of rail travel, you could dine on kippers and champagne aboard the Brighton Belle; smoke a post-prandial cigar as the Golden Arrow closed in on Paris, or be shaved by the Flying Scotsman's on-board barber. Everyone from schoolboys to socialites knew of these glamorous 'named trains' a ...Show more
FUNNY YOU SHOULD SAY THAT-CSD TC by MARTIN ANDREW
$49.95 AUD
Category: Writing, Language & Reference
Funny You Should Say That by Andrew Martin
$24.95 AUD
Category: Humour
'A fool and his words are soon parted' wrote William Shenstone in 1764; one might add that 'A wit and his words are rarely collected'. Here is the antidote: a dazzling survey of the funniest remarks, quips and observations from Ancient Rome, the Bible and Chaucer right up to The Simpsons and Little Brit ...Show more
Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro by Andrew Martin
$39.99 AUD
Category: History
Andrew Martin has been described as 'the laureate of railways', having written many books with railway themes. But Andrew has always been obsessed with the Paris Metro, hence Metropolitain: An Ode to the Paris Metro, the first English history of the Metro for the general reader.Metropolitain is as styli ...Show more
Night Train to Jamalpur by Andrew Martin
$19.99 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers | Series: Jim Stringer Ser.
North 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 along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, wi ...Show more
Night Train to Jamalpur by Andrew Martin
$29.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks
North 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 along. Was he the intended target? Jim should have known that his secondment to the East Indian Railway, wi ...Show more
Night Trains: The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper by Martin Andrew
$32.99 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Reading Level: Scholarly/Undergraduate
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling backgroun ...Show more
Night Trains : The Rise and Fall of the Sleeper by Andrew Martin
$22.99 AUD
Category: Travel
Night trains have long fascinated us with the possibilities of their private sleeping compartments, gilded dining cars, champagne bars and wealthy travellers. Authors from Agatha Christie to Graham Greene have used night trains to tell tales of romance, intrigue and decadence against a rolling backgroun ...Show more
Speaking in Tongues : The Songs of Van Morrison by Martin Buzacott & Andrew Ford
$39.95 AUD
Category: Music
A definitive, chronological assessment of the entire musical output of one of the world's finest singer/ songwriters, written by two experts. Van Morrison is one of the most distinctive songwriters and singers in the history of popular music and over his forty-year career his music has been influenced ...Show more
Steam Trains Today: Journeys Along Britain's Heritage Railways by Andrew Martin
$34.99 AUD
Category: Travel
A delightfully warm exploration of a very British obsession.
The Blackpool Highflyer by Andrew Martin
$22.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
This second Jim Stringer adventure is a superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam. A superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam, The Blackpool Highflyer brings a new twist to tales of Edwardian England and amateur sleuthing. Assigned to drive holidaymakers to the ...Show more
The Necropolis Railway by Andrew Martin
$22.95 AUD
Category: Crime Fiction & Thrillers
When railwayman Jim Stringer moves to the garish and tawdry London of 1903, he finds his duties are confined to a mysterious graveyard line. Perplexingly, the men he works alongside have formed an instant loathing for him. And his predecessor has disappeared under suspicious circumstances. Can Jim work ...Show more