Martin Andrew

My latest book, just published (July 2021) is called 'Two Men in a Boat Rowing Two Rivers', the story of rowing a ten foot aluminium rowing boat with my oldest friend down the rivers Severn and Loire, the latter recreating Horatio Hornblower's escape from the French in 1811 (he too used a rowing boat). Published by Bradt's Journey Books imprint it is available from bookshops and of course Amazon. Great fun and illustrated by over 120 photographs and five maps showing places visited along the two rivers.

For fans of an ever-popular detective series my book,'Roaming Midsomer', produced jointly with photographer Chris Behan, and published in 2016, visited locations used in the murderous stories, each walk of around four miles with tea rooms and pubs on route. I selected and wrote the walks; Chris Behan took the photographs and produced the maps. He is of course the author of the earlier and very successful 'Exploring Midsomer'.

My writing career began in 1986 when I produced Weekend Walks for The Times newspaper and have since written walks for numerous outdoor magazines and part works and magazines including The Great Outdoors, Out and About, Trail, BBC Countryfile Magazine and Country Walking. I am a member of the Outdoor Writers and Photographers Guild.

I have written other books of walks, two for the AA ('50 Walks in Hertfordshire' and '40 Short Walks in Sussex'), one for Harper Collins ('Collins Rambler's Guide: Chilterns and Ridgeway') and one with the noted landscape photographer John Cleare, 'Discovering the English Lowlands'. I have also revised three volumes of the AA's 50 Walks series.

Over 45 other books for Francis Frith, WH Smith, Ottakers, and Countryside Books draw on my professional expertise as an architectural and landscape historian. These range from histories of a town like High Wycombe via historic photograph books to co-writing a book on tracing the history of houses.