Martin Booth (September 7, 1944, Lancashire - February 12, 2004, London) was a British writer and poet. He also worked as a teacher, scriptwriter, and publisher at the small press Sceptre Press. He wrote many novels, alongside works on travel and wildlife, biographies and children's books.

He was born in Lancashire, and brought up mainly in Hong Kong, which he left in 1964.

His 1988 novel Industry Of Souls was shortlisted for the Booker Prize.

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• James Elroy Flecker, Unpublished Poems and Drafts (1971) (editor)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)
• Hundred and One Dalmations (1987) (radio dramatisation of the Dodie Smith book)
• The Jade Pavilion (1987)
• Black Chameleon (1988)
• Dreaming of Samrkand (1989) (novel)
• A Very Private Gentleman (1990) (novel)
• American Dreams. A Poem (1992) (broadside)
• Rhino Road: The Black and White Rhinos of Africa (1992)
• The Humble Disciple (1992) (novel)
• Life Confronted (1993)
• The Iron Tree (1993)
• Toys of Glass (1995)
• 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)
• 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)
• Doctor Illuminatus (2003) (fantasy fiction)
• Cannabis: A History (2003)
• Gweilo : memories of a Hong Kong childhood (2004)
• Midnight Saboteur (2004)
• Soul Stealer (2004)

External link

• Obituary in the Guardian