The Blackpool Highflyer 9780571219025 Paperback

‘Genuinely gripping … A brilliant evocation of Edwardian working-class life – the sort of thing DH Lawrence might have written had he been less verbose or been blessed with a sense of humour.’ Peter Parker,Evening StandardThe second Jim Stringer adventure,The Blackpool Highflyeris a superbly atmospheric thriller of sabotage, suspicion and steam.’Unique and important … There is no one else who is writing like Andrew Martin today.’ Ian Marchant,Guardian’Evokes Edwardian Yorkshire and Lancashire, their great industrial prosperity and singular ways of living, quite brilliantly in a historical whodunnit which for its fresh and stealthy approach to past times deserves the adjective Bainbridgean.’ Ian Jack,Guardian(Books of the Year)’A steamy whodunnit … This may well be the best fiction about the railways since Dickens.’ Michael Williams,Independent on Sunday