John Malcolm Andrews (born 21 August 1936) is an English antiques author and journalist, crime writer and engineering businessman, author – as John Malcolm – of the Tim Simpson series of art crime novels, author as John Andrews of the first Price Guide to Antique Furniture and Managing Editor of Antique Collecting magazine.
Biography
Born in Chorlton-cum-Hardy, Manchester, Andrews was educated at Sale High School, Manchester and The British School, Montevideo, (1946-1950) before returning to England as a boarder at Bedford Modern School (1950-1955), and at St. John’s College, Cambridge, where he read engineering and was Captain of the Lady Margaret Boat Club. He worked as an export sales manager, management consultant, and international marketing manager before setting up his own business as a machinery broker, travelling abroad extensively.
In 1966 he was a founder member of the Antique Collectors’ Club and became its first author as John Andrews with The Price Guide to Antique Furniture. He went on to produce more books on antique furniture and is currently managing editor of Antique Collecting magazine. He was chairman of the Trustees of Rye Art Gallery 1995-2004.
In 1984 his first crime novel, A Back Room in Somers Town, written as John Malcolm, was published by Collins Crime Club. He went on to produce a total of fifteen of the Tim Simpson series of crime novels plus two more with different central characters.
He was Chairman of the Crime Writers’ Association 1994-5 and wrote a number of short stories. The art background to many of the Tim Simpson series involves the work of modern painters like Walter Sickert, Sir William Orpen, Augustus and Gwen John, Sir William and Ben Nicholson, Sir Alfred Munnings, James Tissot, Wyndham Lewis, C.R.W. Nevinson, the Pre-Raphaelites, Camille Pissaro, Whistler, Winslow Homer, Van Gogh and John Sargent.
He and his wife live in East Sussex and have one son, Sam, journalist and publisher.
Bibliography
Novels as John Malcolm
The Tim Simpson series: -
A Back Room in Somers Town 1984,
The Godwin Sideboard 1984,
The Gwen John Sculpture 1985,
Whistler in the Dark 1986,
Gothic Pursuit 1987
Mortal Ruin Collins, 1988,
The Wrong Impression 1990,
Sheep, Goats and Soap 1991,
A Deceptive Appearance 1992
The Burning Ground 1993
Hung Over 1994,
Into The Vortex 1996,
Simpson's Homer 2001,
Circles and Squares 2002
Rogues’ Gallery 2005
Crime Novels
Mortal Instruments 2003
The Chippendale Factor 2008
Non-fiction as John Andrews: -
The Price Guide to Antique Furniture 1968, (revised 1978)
The Price Guide to Victorian Furniture 1970
The Price Guide to Victorian, Edwardian and 1920s Furniture 1980
British Antique Furniture 1989, (new editions: 2001; 2005/6; 2011)
Victorian and Edwardian Furniture 1992, (new edition: 2001)
Antique Furniture: The ACC Guide to the Antique Furniture of the Western World 1997
Arts and Crafts Furniture, 2005, (new edition: 2013)
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