Martin is the author of several books, including Beware Invisible Cows (described by The Independent newspaper as 'a fantastic intellectual voyage, a real eye-opener'), Stealing the Wave (Bloomsbury, 2007), Napoleon the Novelist (Polity, 2001), Waiting for Bardot (Faber and Faber, 1996) and Walking on Water (John Murray and Minerva, 1992).
Walking on Water, Martin's first book on surfing, rapidly became a cult classic and was short-listed for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year, 1991 [REF].