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Geoff Nicholson

Geoff Nicholson

British novelist and non-fiction writer (born 1953)

Geoff J. Nicholson (born 4 March 1953) is a British novelist and non-fiction writer.[1]

Biography

Geoff J. Nicholson was born in Hillsborough, Sheffield[2] studied English at Gonville and Caius College Cambridge, and Modern European Drama at the University of Essex.

He is generally regarded as a satirist in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh,[3] his writing also being compared favorably with that of Kinsgley and Martin Amis, Jonathan Coe,[4] Will Self and Zadie Smith.[5] The main themes and features of his books include leading characters with major obsessions, sexual and otherwise (guitars, Volkswagens, women's feet and shoes), interweaving storylines and hidden subcultures and societies. His books usually contain a lot of black humour. He has also written several works of non-fiction and many short stories. His novel Bleeding London was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Prize.

His travelogue Day Trips to the Desert was read on Radio 4 by Bill Nighy.

His novel What We Did on Our Holidays was made into the 2007 film Permanent Vacation, featuring David Carradine, directed by W. Scott Peake.[6][7][8][9]

He was a member of the delegation of Los Angeles writers and filmmakers invited by the National Endowment for the Arts to participate in the Guadalajara International Book Festival in 2009.

Bibliography

Novels

  • Street Sleeper (1987)
  • The Knot Garden (1989)
  • What We Did on Our Holidays (1990)
  • Hunters and Gatherers (1991)
  • The Food Chain (1992)
  • The Errol Flynn Novel (1993)
  • Still Life with Volkswagens (1994)
  • Everything and More (1994)
  • Footsucker (1995)
  • Bleeding London (1997)
  • Flesh Guitar (1998)
  • Female Ruins (1999)
  • Bedlam Burning (2000)
  • The Hollywood Dodo (2004)
  • Gravity's Volkswagen (2009)
  • The City Under the Skin (2014)
  • The Miranda (2017)

Non-fiction

  • Big Noises (1991)
  • Day Trips to the Desert (1993)
  • Andy Warhol: A Beginner's Guide (2002)
  • Frank Lloyd Wright: A Beginner's Guide (2002)
  • Sex Collectors (2006)
  • The Lost Art of Walking (2008)
  • Walking in Ruins (2013)
  • The London Complaint (2016)
  • The Suburbanist (2021)
  • Walking On Thin Air (2023)

References

  1. [1]
    Nussbaum, Emily (18 June 2006). "If You Show Me Yours". New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. [2]
    The Lost Art of Walking, Riverhead Books (2008).
  3. [3]
    Caserio, Robert L.; Hawes, Clement (12 January 2012). The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316175101.
  4. [4]
    Caserio, Robert L.; Hawes, Clement (12 January 2012). The Cambridge History of the English Novel. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316175101.
  5. [5]
    Ridenhour, Jamieson (1 January 2013). In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature. Rowman & Littlefield. ISBN 9780810887770.
  6. [6]
    "Permanent Vacation | Film 2007 | TV-MEDIA". tv-media.at (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  7. [7]
    Aden, Josh (6 September 2007). "Featured destination". Daily Pilot. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  8. [8]
    "Permanent Vacation". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  9. [9]
    "Blasts from the Past – SoCal Film Awards". Retrieved 21 January 2024.



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