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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 |
"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! The paperback of Suffer and Survive comes out on August 4th A BIG event is happening in Plymouth University October 31st through November 1st, SUPER SATURATION, celebrating the centenary of modern diving. A wild arts and science package, film and talks and music and demonstrations and the lot! I'll be giving a talk on J. S. Haldane as part of it all. Come back for more, and a fresh link, later. I'll be giving a talk on 'Teaching the Short Story" at the NAWE conference in Manchester in November
And there's still time to sign up for courses in Creative Writing at Plymouth University of course, and a whole medley of lectures and workshops from the Autumn. 'So you want to be a writer' - My Blog. On the Articles Page - A brand new for this website article, a Hard Hat Diving experience in the Scapa Flow
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