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Martin Booth


UK flag (1944 - 2004)

Martin Booth was a prolific British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press. Booth was born in Lancashire, but was brought up mainly in Hong Kong. He died of cancer in Devon in 2004, shortly after completing Gweilo, a memoir of his Hong Kong childhood written for his own children.
 
 
Series
Alchemist's Son
   1. Doctor Illuminatus (2003)
   2. Soul Stealer (2004)
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Novels
   Borrowed Gull (1970)
   Coronis (1973)
   Snath (1975)
   The Knotting Sequence (1977)
   The Carrier (1978)
   Bismarck (1980)
   Bad Track (1980)
   Missile Summer (1982)
   Killing the Moses (1985)
   Hiroshima Joe (1985)
   The Jade Pavilion (1987)
   Black Chameleon (1988)
   Dreaming of Samarkand (1989)
   A Very Private Gentleman (1991)
     aka The American
   The Humble Disciple (1992)
   The Iron Tree (1993)
   Adrift in the Oceans of Mercy (1994)
   Toys of Glass (1995)
   War Dog (1996)
   Music on the Bamboo Radio (1997)
   The Industry of Souls (1998)
   Panther (1999)
   Islands Of Silence (2003)
   Midnight Saboteur (2004)
   Coyote Moon (2005)
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Collections
   Paper Pennies (poems) (1967)
   Crying Embers (poems) (1971)
   Devil's Wine (poems) (1980)
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Non fiction show
 


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