being external examiner for D.D. Johnston at the University of Gloucestershire. The first novel published was Johnston's The Deconstruction of Professor Thrub. He was one of the AHRC / BBC New Generation Thinkers in 2012–13. 2014 saw BBC Radio 4 broadcast his documentary on the writer Alan Garner, The Bronze Age Man of Jodrell Bank His two-part Radio 4 series show The New North aired in 2013 and he wrote about the buildings in the North of England in the BBC online news magazine. Martin Goodman gave a reading from his new novel on vampires at the Bram Stoker Birthday Conference in Whitby in November 2013. This was published as Forever Konrad: A Vampire's Vampire in November 2017. As Director of the Philip Larkin Centre he ran major public interview sessions in Hull with writers such as Hilary Mantel, Steven Saylor, Christopher Hampton, Emma Thompson, Irene Sabatini, Kate Mosse, David Almond, Lachlan Mackinnon, Edna O'Brien. He started the Annual Children's Writing Event in Hull, working first of all with Emma Thompson and the Hull Children's Flood Project and then with David Almond hosted by students of Sidney Smith School and Malorie Blackman, who wrote the introduction to a book of resulting stories by Hull children. In 2011 he joined the Man Booker Prize Foundation University Initiative, bringing D.B.C. Pierre to Hull to speak about his 2003 novel Vernon God Little, after distributing a copy of the book to all first-year students at Hull and on film at Scarborough. Julian Barnes was his Man Booker guest in 2013. Awards Client Earth, written jointly with his husband James Thornton (environmentalist), was Winner of the Judge's Choice, Business Book of the Year in the Business Book of the Year Awards, 2018. is biography of the Scottish scientist and serial self-experimenter John Scott Haldane, Suffer and Survive, won 1st Prize, Basis of Medicine in the 2008 BMA Book Awards Martin Goodman has been awarded a Scottish Arts Council Writer's Bursary, and Travel Awards from the Scottish Arts Council and the Society of Authors. His first novel On Bended Knees was shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize. He was awarded a British Academy Small Research Grant in 2010 for a biography of Taezan Maezumi Roshi. His play Feeding the Roses won in Virtual Theatre's "Pen is a Mighty Sword" international playwriting competition in 2007, for "innovative plays that question the status quo and shed light on