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"Goodman has put together a fascinating portrait of an indomitable Victorian who deserves to be better understood and celebrated." - Daily MailMartin Goodman's vivid and reverential biography is, incredibly, the first ever published about Haldane... Goodman successfully avoids what might have been a dry academic study and delivers - to use Victorian terminology - a darn good yarn about a darn good man while weaving through a maze of scientific facts and figures. - The Scotsman [Goodman] has a novelist’s eye for evocative detail that lesser writers might miss and the result is as compelling as a historical novel... As Goodman's fine biography shows, we still have a lot to learn from Dr J. S. Haldane.’ – P. D. Smith, The Times Fascinating … Goodman writes enchantingly – The Literary Review Thrilling – Daily Telegraph Highly enjoyable. It is a fitting tribute to a pioneer who enabled the human body to survive at the extremes of modern life. – Nature A fascinating portrait of an indomitable Victorian who deserves to be better understood and celebrated. – Christopher Hudson, Daily Mail Martin Goodman's work is literary and intimate. At times, Haldane could easily have been one of Dr Jekyll's colleagues in Stevenson's classic novella. The strong sense of dynamic enterprise, however, never detracts from the scholarship which underpins Goodman's work. – Financial Times Martin Goodman offers us a rounded portrait that does justice to both Haldane the man and Haldane the scientist. This biography flows easily along, and the chapters on Haldane's researches on nerve gas and the other barbaric innovations of the First World War are particularly moving. - The Times Higher Education Supplement |
The new supernatural thriller Look Who’s Watching is out now as a paperback or in a Kindle edition A Boy Haunts his Killer before Reincarnating as his Son Me chatting about the book on a YouTube clip "Such narrow, narrow confines we live in. Every so often, one of us primates escapes these dimensions, as Martin Goodman did. All we can do is rattle the bars and look after him as he runs into the hills. We wait for his letters home." ~ The Los Angeles Times
"Heralds a new dawn for British writing." ~ Daily Post Please explore the site and judge for yourself! For upcoming in conversation events with visiting writers, please check out The Philip Larkin Centre 'So you want to be a writer' - My former retired Blog still worth exploring. On the Articles Page - A brand new for this website article, a Hard Hat Diving experience in the Scapa Flow
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