Andrew Martin is an English journalist, rail historian, crime novelist, and writer of fiction and non-fiction. He is the author of more than 30 books, many about railways. He is also a broadcaster, and writes a Substack, Reading on Trains.
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2020
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From the storyThey had finished reading War and Peace, and now they were celebrating their triumph at a Russian supper club in Brighton Beach. There were twelve of them seated at the long table (“Just like that painting of what’s-his-name’s dinner, minus what’s-his-name,” Kyla said brightly), and, well, Derek assumed that at least half had probably finished War and Peace. Or, fine: he imagined it was safe to say that, on the whole, the table had at least started reading War and Peace.
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