Booth (Industry of Souls; Hiroshima Joe; etc.) offers a dreamy allegory of lost innocence in this novel about a young British archeologist who loses a chance at love when he's forced to serve in WWI.

Martin Booth, writer: born Ribchester, Lancashire 7 September 1944; FRSL 1980; married 1968 Helen Barber (one son, one daughter); died Stoodleigh, Devon 12 February 2004. Martin Booth was a novelist, ...

on Martin Booth’s first day in Hong Kong in 1952, his parents took him to lunch at the British naval base where his father was about to start work. There the seven-year-old was confronted with a ...

Gweilo, a play by Pants Theatre Production, is based on the 2004 memoir of the same name by the late Martin Booth. The book is about Booth’s fond memories of growing up in 1950s Hong Kong, a blond, ...

Martin Booth was a novelist, poet, biographer, travel-writer, scriptwriter, children's author and sometime small-press publisher. He was a natural raconteur, the stories often growing wildly in the ...

The convoluted and unfocused first book in Booth's (War Dog) new series begins with a promising hook, but then mostly just meanders through its countryside setting. Twins Pip and Tim and their parents ...

Novelist/biographer Martin Booth's sprawling history of opium tracks the drug from its initial use as a powerful and effective, if often misused, medicine and anesthetic through the development and ...

Martin Booth, the writer who died on Thursday aged 59, cast his net wide as a novelist, biographer, children's author and social historian. Booth always viewed himself as an artisan rather than an ...