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Sep 2015 · Blog
I’ve spent more than a solid day of my life already watching GAME OF THRONES till I’m up to date. Fabulous settings, great dialogue, some marvellous characters. Strong set-pieces too: the George R R…
Read more →Sep 2014 · Books
A modern teenage dystopia. The world has seen no girls born for sixteen years. Karen was the last girl and Steven her twin. Their Dad’s of the old school. He turns their garden into…
Read more →Feb 2011 · Books
Life’s uncomfortable for Tomas Christie, an English boy with a German mother. He travels to Dresden and a divided Berlin to investigate the German side of his nature, his blind ex-Nazi uncle his guide…
Read more →Jul 2008 · Books
The first biography of the astonishing scientist Dr J. S. Haldane, Suffer and Survive. Martin Goodman begins his excellent biography of John Scott Haldane with a vivid account of the Tylorstown disaster. He has a…
Read more →Jan 2006 · Books
Why the critics love Slippery When Wet: I’m not sure how Martin Goodman has pulled this extraordinary novel off – so moving and so funny; so sharply acute and so generous hearted; so translucent and…
Read more →May 2002 · Books
Mountains, though they might seem to be merely big bits of rock decorated with snow and trees, are in fact “great teachers”. Nipping up summits the world over, Goodman finally finds one that talks.…
Read more →May 2001 · Books
The famed writer and sorcerer Carlos Castaneda steps back from the dead to lead Martin Goodman on a chase through the French Pyrenees, in search of the secrets of shamanism, hallucinogens, religion and lost…
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