Background
Graham Coster was born in 1960 in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Graham Coster
1983
Grange Rd, Cambridge CB3 9AN, United Kingdom
Graham attended Robinson College in Cambridge from 1980 to 1983, where he studied English.
1987
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Graham Coster received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cambridge University in 1987.
1983
Grange Rd, Cambridge CB3 9AN, United Kingdom
Graham attended Robinson College in Cambridge from 1980 to 1983, where he studied English.
1987
The Old Schools, Trinity Ln, Cambridge CB2 1TN, United Kingdom
Graham Coster received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cambridge University in 1987.
(On one level this is a novel about the land, set in a reg...)
On one level this is a novel about the land, set in a region long commemorated for its sublime wilderness rather than for its industrial history. On another, it attempts to observe England of the 1980s, a nation preoccupied as much with shopping as with work.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/074750394X/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i2
1989
(Once upon a time even our goods and wares traveled romant...)
Once upon a time even our goods and wares traveled romantically. Bales of tea, rolls of silk, jars of spices were dispersed across the oceans in East India Company schooners and clippers. Many contemporary travel writers still retrace the traditional trade routes, but modern goods are moved by trucks. One man has to take a container on his truck, possibly all the way across Europe, alone, responsible for perhaps a quarter of a million pounds worth of goods. Across Eastern Europe, where customs regulations change every week, where on one run fuel might be short in Rumania or fighting have broken out in Yugoslavia. This travel book follows the author as he trucks his way across Europe and America.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0670848506/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i3
1995
(The story of aviation is almost exactly concurrent with t...)
The story of aviation is almost exactly concurrent with the history of the 20th century. The Wild Blue Yonder contains some of the very best writing about flight, from the lonely adventure of pioneers like Beryl Markham and Antoine de Saint-Exupery to the horror of aerial bombardment during the Spanish Civil War and the Vietnam War, from Chuck Yeager's breaking of the sound barrier to the musings of such writers as Tom Wolfe, Julian Barnes, Nicholson Baker, and V. S. Naipaul. The Wild Blue Yonder is a collection that brings together writing that puts into words the exhilarating, alarming, and sometimes sublimely mystical sensation of flight.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0330330292/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i5
1997
(The hint of an obscure legend involving the salvage of a ...)
The hint of an obscure legend involving the salvage of a flying boat in a corner of the Belgian Congo set Coster on this quest. His journey started in Southampton, from where Imperial Airways' Empire boats left for Britain's far-flung Dominions, and took him through Africa, down the Nile, through Uganda, Kenya, and Malawi, from Lake Naivasha to Victoria Falls.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0670866539/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_bibl_vppi_i1
2000
(Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green ...)
Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green fields under blue skies and warm sun. But, for the first time, a book explores the mesmerizing beauty of cricket grounds in winter, carpeted with snow, through remarkable color photographs depicting grounds from Lord s to the smallest village pitch in Lancashire, and internationally from New Zealand to the Indian Himalayas. For this aspect alone, Snow Stopped Play will be seized upon as the perfect gift for the cricket fan even by those utterly uninterested in the sport themselves.
https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0993291104/ref=dbs_a_def_rwt_hsch_vapi_taft_p1_i0
2015
(Half boat, half aeroplane, taking off in a thrilling tumu...)
Half boat, half aeroplane, taking off in a thrilling tumult of spray, the flying boat was the journey of a lifetime, Imperial Airways legendary Empire boats flying up the Nile in nightly hops and alighting on lakes and in harbours all the way down to South Africa. But in 1939 the Empire boat Corsair came down in fog on a tiny river in the Belgian Congo and, through an epic salvage operation, gave its name to a new village in an obscure backwater of Central Africa.
https://www.amazon.com/Flying-Boat-That-Fell-Earth/dp/0993291163
2019
Graham Coster was born in 1960 in Croydon, United Kingdom.
Graham attended Robinson College in Cambridge from 1980 to 1983, where he studied English. He received a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Cambridge University in 1987.
Graham Coster began his career as an assistant editor at Granta Magazine in Cambridge, where he served from 1983 to 1987. In 1999, he took the post of a publisher at Aurum Press in London, he worked there until 2013. He ran the Editorial Department and commissioned at least 20 non-fiction titles a year, mostly from his own ideas, from Daily Telegraph anthologies to high-end architecture and definitive books on Pink Floyd and the Battle of Britain. Since 2015, he is a publisher and director at Safe Haven Books.
As the author, Graham wrote his first book Train, Train in 1989. Coster’s second book, A Thousand Miles from Nowhere: Trucking Two Continents, was written in 1995. The Wild Blue Yonder: The Picador Book of Aviation followed in 1997. His latest book, The Flying Boat That Fell to Earth: A Lost World of Air Travel and Africa, was written in 2019. He also a contributor of articles to GQ, New Yorker, London Daily Telegraph, and other publications.
Graham Coster is particularly known as the author of a number of novels and articles, as well as a publisher of non-fiction ranging across subject areas from biography to architecture, sport (especially cricket) to rock bands. He was short-listed for the W.H. Smith Book Awards in 2001 for The Last Domain of the Flying Boat.
(Half boat, half aeroplane, taking off in a thrilling tumu...)
2019(On one level this is a novel about the land, set in a reg...)
1989(The hint of an obscure legend involving the salvage of a ...)
2000(Cricket is a summer game, intended to be played on green ...)
2015(The story of aviation is almost exactly concurrent with t...)
1997(Once upon a time even our goods and wares traveled romant...)
1995
