Thriller writers at city book signing

Goodman, whose new novel Look Who’s Watching has been entered for the Man Booker prize, is director of the Philip Larkin Centre and Professor of Creative Writing at the University of Hull.

His new novel is a thriller set against a background of celebrity, media intrusion death and revenge from beyond the grave.

Thornton’s novel, Immediate Harm, is an environmental legal thriller warning of the dangers of genetic modification of food – well-trodden terrain for the writer, one of the leading environmental lawyers in the world and founder of ClientEarth.

A member of the bars of California, New York and the United States Supreme Court, he is also a member of the Law Society of England and Wales.

Thornton said: “Writing this novel has allowed me to explore matters which I believe are important and bring a level of authenticity to the legal thriller.

“While this book is fiction, much of what I write about could easily become fact if left to go unchallenged in law.”

Both authors will be visiting Waterstone’s Jameson Street branch from 1pm on May 14 to sign copies of their novels.