Martin Booth : biography
7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004
Martin Booth (7 September 1944 – 12 February 2004) was a prolific British novelist and poet. He also worked as a teacher and screenwriter, and was the founder of the Sceptre Press.
Works
- Paper Pennies and Other Poems (1967)
- Supplication to the Himalayas. A Poem and Sketch (1968)
- In the Yenan Caves (1969)
- A Winnowing of Silence (1971) (poems)
- Pilgrims and Petitions (1971)
- The Crying Embers (1971) (poems)
- On the Death of Archdeacon Broix (1971)
- James Elroy Flecker, Unpublished Poems and Drafts (1971) (editor)
- White (1971)
- In Her Hands (1973) (poem)
- Teller: Four Poems (1973)
- Brevities (1974) (poems)
- Hands Twining Grasses (1974) (poems)
- Spawning The Os (1974)
- Yogh (1974) (poems)
- Snath (1975)
- Two Boys and a Girl, Playing in a Churchyard (1975) (poem)
- Stalks of Jade: Renderings of early Chinese erotic verse (1976)
- Horse and Rider, a poem (1976)
- The Book of Cats (1977) (editor with George MacBeth)
- Extending Upon the Kingdom (1977)
- Folio/Work in Progress. Poems (1977) (broadside anthology, editor with John Stathatos)
- The Knotting Sequence (1977)
- The Dying (1978)
- The Earth Man Dreams of a Turned Sod (1978)
- Winter’s Night: Knotting (1979)
- Decadal: Ten Years of Sceptre Press (1979)
- Calling with Owls (1979) (poems)
- The Bad Track (1980) (novel)
- Devil’s Wine (1980) (poems)
- Bismarck (1980)
- British Writing Today (1981) (editor)
- The Cnot Dialogues (1981)
- Meeting the Snowy North Again (1982) (poems)
- Looking for the Rainbow Sign: Poems of America (1983)
- Tenfold: Poems for Frances Horovitz (1983) (editor)
- Travelling Through the Senses: A Study of the Poetry of George MacBeth (1983)
- Contemporary British And North American Verse (1984) (editor)
- British Poetry 1964 to 1984: Driving through the barricades (1985)
- Hiroshima Joe (1985) (novel)
- Killing the Moscs (1985)
- Under the Sea (Impressions) (1985)
- Aleister Crowley: Selected Poems (1986)
- Carpet Sahib, A Life of Jim Corbett (1986) (biography of a shikari)
- The Jade Pavilion (1987) (novel)
- Black Chameleon (1988) (novel)
- Dreaming of Samrkand (1989) (novel)
- A Very Private Gentleman (1990) (novel), adapted as the 2010 film The American
- American Dreams. A Poem (1992) (broadside)
- Rhino Road: The Black and White Rhinos of Africa (1992)
- The Humble Disciple (1992) (novel)
- The Iron Tree (1993) (novel)
- Toys of Glass (1995) (novel)
- Adrift In The Oceans Of Mercy (1996)
- War Dog (1996) (novel)
- Opium: A History (1996)
- Doctor and the Detective – a Biography of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle (1997)
- Music on the Bamboo Radio (1997) (novel)
- The Industry of Souls (1998) (novel)
- Magick Life: A Biography of Aleister Crowley (2000)
- The Dragon Syndicates: The Global Phenomenon of the Triads (2000)
- PoW (2000)
- Panther (2001)
- Islands Of Silence (2002) (novel)
- The Alchemist’s Son: Doctor Illuminatus (2003) (fantasy fiction)
- Cannabis: A History (2003)
- Gweilo: Memoirs of a Hong Kong childhood (2004) [US ed., 2005, published as Golden Boy]
- Midnight Saboteur (2004)
- The Alchemist’s Son: Soul Stealer (2004)
- The American (2010 edition of A Very Private Gentleman, first published 1990. The cover design is taken from the 2010 Corbijn film The American, which is based upon this novel.)