Andrew Martin’s brilliant Jim Stringer series of novels, set in the environs of the Victorian railway network, have received a rave review from Katherine A. Powers in the Boston Globe. She says (of The Lost Luggage Porter,” “The Necropolis Railway” and “The Blackpool Highflyer”) ‘Martin could be compared, in a way, to W. G. Sebald, though he is not such a sad sack - in fact, not a sad sack at all. He is possessed of a sense of humor quite missing in Sebald. But he does share that writer’s mood of alienated possession of the past. His is an original voice, and the historical novels ate the best I have read this century’
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