David St. John Thomas

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David St. John Thomas


Born
August 30, 1929

Died
August 19, 2014

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David St John Thomas (30 August 1929 – 19 August 2014) was an English publisher and writer who founded David & Charles.

The son of writer Gilbert Thomas (1891–1978) he shared his father's enthusiasm for railways, particularly in the running of their Bassett-Lowke model railway.

Brought up in Devon over the World War II period, his first job was as a reporter on the Western Morning News in Plymouth where he specialised in covering transport and holiday stories. He later became a freelancer, combining journalism and radio and television reporting with fruit farming and being commissioned by the Dartington Hall Trust and others to produce reports on rural transport. His first book (for young people) was published in 1959 and in 1960 he produced
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Average rating: 3.86 · 96 ratings · 17 reviews · 38 distinct works
The Country Railway

3.76 avg rating — 21 ratings — published 1976 — 7 editions
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Cats Work Like This

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Journey Through Britain: La...

3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 2004 — 2 editions
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SR 150: A Century and a Hal...

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Railway Season

4.50 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2011 — 4 editions
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For the Love of a Cat: A Pu...

3.25 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2006 — 3 editions
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Farewell to Trains: A Lifet...

4.33 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 2013
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Summer Saturdays in the West

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Getting Published

3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions
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BR in the Eighties

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3.67 avg rating — 3 ratings — published 1990
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