Martin Goodman

Martin Goodman was born in Leicester, and has lived and worked in China, Qatar, the USA, Saudi Arabia, Thailand, Germany, The Netherlands, Italy and France. Travel forms a large part of his writing: both for strictly travel-related books and also for novels and biographies. His writing takes on spirituality (holy women; shamanism; sacred space; spiritual traditions) while other themes are the inheritance of war: how the effects of war are passed on down the generations; and the never-say-die story, characters living out their beliefs against the odds. His first novel ON BENDED KNEES was shortlisted for the Whitbread prize, and his most recent biography SUFFER AND SURVIVE won 1st Prize, Basis of Medicine in the BMA Book Awards 2008. He is the Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull, where he also directs the Philip Larkin Centre. He lives in Hull and London.