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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · 3d

Defending nature with their lives-MARTIN GOODMAN-The Extraordinary Story of India’s #Bishnoi
A free-ranging conversation with the inimitable Terrence McNalley on his 'Free Forum' podcast, around my book MY HEAD FOR A TREE.
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Defending nature w/ their lives-MARTIN GOODMAN-The Extraordinary Story of India’s Bishnoi

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Sep 6

A Curlew, at Bredon Marshes in Great Yarmouth this morning.
Hundreds of avocets, whimbrels, oystercatchers and redshanks too ... the avocets silvering the air in a swarm of flight.

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Sep 3

Here's proof! Everything is going to be alright!
As evidence, here's this evening's rainbow over Britain's most easterly point, Lowestoft.

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SoCal Leslie @socalleslie.bsky.social · Aug 19

Allen’s hummingbird stretching. 🪶🌿

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Aug 17

My favourite float in today's Lowestoft carnival parade.
The Lowestoft Players and their Jack and the Beanstalk fantasia were good too!

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Aug 12

I went to Austria with a pen and notepad, and came back with these thoughts and a broken foot. My latest substack reflections...
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Slowing Down

Thoughts on writing by hand, the writing grind, and the iNaturalist app

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Aug 10

I was excited by today's visitor to our London garden ... a hummingbird hawkmoth.

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The Nature Chronicles Prize @naturechronicles.bsky.social · Aug 1

We're delighted to announce that entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize open today!

The winner will receive £10,000 and five runners up £1,000 each. The winning and shortlisted entries will be included in The Nature Chronicles Prize: 3 anthology, published by @saraband-books.bsky.social

Entries for the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize are now open, as of 1st August 2025.

Key dates to enter the 2025/26 Nature Chronicles Prize.

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jul 11

My book!
Up for sneak previews!
(Worldwide, for July only)
All attention warmly welcomed.

Barbican Press @barbicanpress.bsky.social · Jul 10

📢 Attention Book Bloggers and Vloggers!

@martingoodman.bsky.social's THE BOY ON THE TRAIN, a Patricia Highsmith-inspired eco-thriller, releases in October.

The book is now available for review on NetGalley! 📗
👉 www.netgalley.com/catalog/book...

#netgalley
#bookreview
#thriller
#fiction
#newbook

Front cover of "The Boy on the Train" by Martin Goodman. A monochrome image of a hooded teenager walking away from the camera holds a canister filling the area with smoke, with title written in red capitals above him and the author's name in yellow capitals below.

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Dean Wilson @deanwilson.bsky.social · Jul 9

Yesterday I took the best photo
of a seagull I’ve ever taken.

#Scarborough

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jul 9

Who could take a better one? That's the new cover picture for Jonathan Livingston Seagull. Bravo Dean!

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jul 7

I'm getting into the iNaturalist app. Which is helping me to slow down beside flowers and see what might be inside them.
This is a stevenia deceptoria ... a woodlouse fly. Currently THE sighting in East Anglia.
Who knew?

Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jul 6

I'm enjoying having a traditional print paper on a Sheet bday again. This has the looks of good honest journalism.

Luke Turner @luketurner.bsky.social · Jul 6

A superb piece of journalism in The Observer: it seems like the one of the sacred texts of Nature Writing (TM) is not quite as much of an unflinchingly honest read as claimed

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The real Salt Path: how a blockbuster book and film were ...

Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal that the truth behind it is ve...

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jul 6

A beautiful walk around Carlton Marshes ... many butterflies, much birdsong, including this Sedges Warbler singing its heart out

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jul 4

As I shift countries, homes, people, belongings, prospects, some thoughts: open.substack.com/pub/martingo...

Letting Go

Thoughts on leaving homes, people and possessions behind

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jun 26

Today at 6 I'll be talking with Miranda Miller about her truly wonderful new novel WHEN I WAS - drawing on a 1950s London childhood. Please book your free ticket now and join us online!
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Miranda Miller in Conversation at Barbican Fest

An online Q&A with author Miranda Miller, discussing her latest novel, "When I Was"

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Prof. Eliot Jacobson @climatecasino.net · Jun 18

Speaking of f&%kery ... as of yesterday, the Gulf of Karankawa is just 0.02°C below the record high for the day, set just last year.

The lack of tropical development is allowing warm surface-waters to continue heating.

Will we see a new daily record tomorrow? Stay tuned!

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Gaia Vince @wanderinggaia.bsky.social · Jun 18

Anti-immigrant government on its deranged mission of hostile environment

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · Jun 18

Full story here for those quibbling in the comments www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...

UK Home Office tells parents their children should return to Brazil alone

While Ana Luiza Cabral Gouveia and Hugo Barbosa can remain, letter says sons, 11 and eight, must go back to Brazil

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jun 14

Seven swans aswimming ... an unusual North Sea view from our window

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · Jun 12

A beautifully clear-eyed review of MY HEAD FOR A TREE and the Bishnois by Kate Horsley in Inkfish Journal
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Review of My Head For A Tree by Martin Goodman

Inkfish Book Reviews

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · May 23

Behind that genial, easy-going writer's persona there lurks ...
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Envy in the Writer's Heart

and why bookstores can be ghastly experiences

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University of Exeter Special Collections @exeterunispeccoll.bsky.social · May 20

Good morning to everyone, but especially to all the bees, for today is their special day! 🐝

This engraved frontispiece by Thomas Loveday is from ‘Melisselogia: Or, the Female Monarchy…’, a book about bees by John Thorley, published in 1744.

📷 Reserve 595.799 THO

#WorldBeeDay #BeeDay #RareBooks

Frontispiece featuring three engravings of bees and a leafy border. Captioned 'Frontispiece' and 'T Loveday'.

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · May 18

My first podcast about the Bishnois, their fierce love of trees, and my book MY HEAD FOR A TREE - for the love of trees, please listen.
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treehugger podcast - my head for a tree

My Head for a Tree with Martin Goodman

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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · May 12

The world needs more of this and less of most other things

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Martin Goodman @martingoodman.bsky.social · May 5

Back to our London garden, where this vixen hangs out.

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