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Books by Geoff Nicholson
  | | Walking in Ruins (Paperback) by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 248 Pages, Published 2013 by Harbour Books (East) Ltd, United Kingdom ISBN-13: 978-1-905128-20-4, ISBN: 1-905128-20-7 "One of the questions Geoff Nicholson is frequently asked is whether he has a favourite walk?" |
 | | The Miranda by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, Published 2017 by The Unnamed Press ISBN-13: 978-1-944700-36-2, ISBN: 1-944700-36-6 "The volunteer would complain, of course. I suppose he couldn't help it. He felt angry or self-righteous or betrayed. He said this was not what he'd signed up for, this was breaking a promise, breaking the rules, this was not the way the good guys conducted themselves. He might say this was a violation of his human rights, a war crime, a crime anyway. And I'd say, "You're probably right," and then continued with the process. Joe's got a ..." |
 | | The City Under the Skin A Novel by Geoff Nicholson Hardcover, 272 Pages, Published 2014 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-16904-6, ISBN: 0-374-16904-7 "A cartographic thriller with so many twists and turns it requires its own mapA cartography-obsessed misfit clerk from an antique map store in a district that's not quite trendy yet. A bold young woman chasing the answer to a question she can't quite formulate. A petty criminal hoping the parking lot he's just purchased is the ticket to a new life of respectability with his school-age daughter. A ruthless but vulnerable killer and his di ..." |
 | | Bleeding London by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 374 Pages, Published 2014 by Harbour Books (East) Ltd ISBN-13: 978-1-905128-27-3, ISBN: 1-905128-27-4 "Mick is on his way to the Smoke from the provinces. He's got six guys to find with only their names to go on and no more help than the phone book and an A-Z. Stuart is determined to walk each of the capital's roads, streets and alleyways. But what will he do when there's nothing left of his A-Z but blacked out pages? Judy is set on creating her own unique map of each of the metropolis' boroughs ...an A-Z of sex in the city. Three strang ..." |
 | | The Lost Art of Walking(1st Edition) The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 288 Pages, Published 2009 by Riverhead Books ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-403-2, ISBN: 1-59448-403-1 " How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans, social creatures, and engaged with the world. Cultural commentator, Whitbread Prize winner, and author of Sex Collectors Geoff Nicholson offers his fascinating, definitive, and personal ruminations on t ..." |
 | | The City Under the Skin(Reprint) A Novel by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 266 Pages, Published 2015 by Farrar, Straus And Giroux ISBN-13: 978-0-374-53555-1, ISBN: 0-374-53555-8 "A cartographic thriller with so many twists and turns it requires its own mapA cartography-obsessed misfit clerk from an antique map store in a district that's not quite trendy yet. A bold young woman chasing the answer to a question she can't quite formulate. A petty criminal hoping the parking lot he's just purchased is the ticket to a new life of respectability with his school-age daughter. A ruthless but vulnerable killer and his di ..." |
 | | The Hollywood Dodo A Novel by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 336 Pages, Published 2007 by Simon & Schuster Mobipocket_Ebook ISBN-13: 978-1-4165-6815-5, ISBN: 1-4165-6815-8 "From the critically acclaimed author of "The Food Chain" and "Footsucker" comes a sophisticated comedy about three people caught in the Hollywood machine. Following the death of his wife, Henry Cadwallader, an English doctor, insists on accompanying his aspiring actress daughter, Dorothy, on a trip to Hollywood. He fears she will fall prey to corruption and sleaze, but finds that it is actually he who is being corrupted at every turn. O ..." |
 | | Everything and More by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 249 Pages, Published 1999 by The Overlook Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87951-710-6, ISBN: 0-87951-710-7 "Explosively funny novel about life, love, and shopping. “Powered by a fast-moving plot, this latest exuberant fantasy concerns a department store, a female employee-turned-terrorist upon whom the reclusive proprietor exercises his droit de seigneur, and a porter who stumbles upon the hidden tunnels in which the building's architect entombed himself in the 1930s. Nicholson has a wonderful ear for the unintentionally funny cliches of mode ..." |
 | | The Lost Art of Walking(1st Edition) The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism by Geoff Nicholson Hardcover, 288 Pages, Published 2008 by Riverhead Hardcover ISBN-13: 978-1-59448-998-3, ISBN: 1-59448-998-X " How we walk, where we walk, why we walk tells the world who and what we are. Whether it's once a day to the car, or for long weekend hikes, or as competition, or as art, walking is a profoundly universal aspect of what makes us humans, social creatures, and engaged with the world. Cultural commentator, Whitbread Prize winner, and author of Sex Collectors Geoff Nicholson offers his fascinating, definitive, and personal ruminations on t ..." |
 | | A Knot Garden (Revised) by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 192 Pages, Published 1996 by Quartet Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-8001-1, ISBN: 0-7043-8001-3 |
 | | Bedlam Burning by Geoff Nicholson, Fred Hirschmann Paperback, 298 Pages, Published 2003 by The Overlook Press ISBN-13: 978-1-58567-453-4, ISBN: 1-58567-453-2 "In Bedlam Burning, Geoff Nicholson takes deadly satiric aim at the ivy-covered walls of academia and the rubber rooms of insane asylums. When the debut novel of Gregory Collins is accepted by a publisher he seems set on a course for literary stardom. There's just one problem: he doesn't quite have the looks to match his talent, and his publisher wants a photo to put on the book jacket. He asks his handsome (but dim) college classmate, M ..." |
 | | Bleeding London(1st Edition) by Geoff Nicholson Hardcover, 320 Pages, Published 1997 by Overlook Books ISBN-13: 978-0-87951-807-3, ISBN: 0-87951-807-3 "London is loved and hated in different ways by Mick, Judy, and Stuart. But as cities always do (yours, too...), London conspires with destiny to bring them together for its own purposes.For Mick, a tough from the provinces who comes bent on avenging a wrong done to his girlfriend at a bachelor party, London is irritatingly sophisticated but, of course, nothing he can't handle. For Judy, London is a city of endless sexual possibilities, ..." |
 | | The Hollywood Dodo A Novel by Geoff Nicholson Hardcover, 336 Pages, Published 2004 by Simon & Schuster ISBN-13: 978-0-7432-5779-4, ISBN: 0-7432-5779-0 " From the critically acclaimed author of The Food Chain and Footsucker comes a sophisticated comedy about three people caught in the Hollywood machine. Following the death of his wife, Henry Cadwallader, an English doctor, insists on accompanying his aspiring actress daughter, Dorothy, on a trip to Hollywood. He fears she will fall prey to corruption and sleaze, but finds that it is actually he who is being corrupted at every turn. On ..." |
 | | Hunters and Gatherers(Reprint) A Novel by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 224 Pages, Published 1995 by The Overlook Press ISBN-13: 978-0-87951-601-7, ISBN: 0-87951-601-1 "A novel about fame, collectors, and postmodern chaos. Steve Geddes is writing about collectors and collecting. His research introduces him to people obsessed by many things, including cars, beer-cans, tape-recordings and jokes. Geddes also gets himself involved in a quest to find a cult novelist." |
 | | The Errol Flynn novel(Updated) by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 213 Pages, Published 1994 by Sceptre ISBN-13: 978-0-340-59919-8, ISBN: 0-340-59919-7 "Jake is a second-rate, resting actor until he meets an unknown director who is preparing to make a film about Errol Flynn and, bizarrely, gets the lead role. Not everything goes quite to plan - the film runs out of money. Jake gets embroiled with his co-star and life soon slides into farce." |
 | | Still Life with Volkswagens by Geoff Nicholson Hardcover, 196 Pages, Published 1994 by Quartet Books ISBN-13: 978-0-7043-7060-9, ISBN: 0-7043-7060-3 |
 | | The Book of Sheffield A City in Short Fiction (Reading the City) by Margaret Drabble, Helen Mort, Philip Hensher, Gregory Norminton, Tim Etchells, Naomi Frisby, Geoff Nicholson, Karl Riordan, Johny Pitts, Désirée Reynolds, Catherine Taylor Paperback, 160 Pages, Published 2019 by Comma Press ISBN-13: 978-1-912697-13-7, ISBN: 1-912697-13-0 |
 | | Lost Art of Walking The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 278 Pages, Published 2011 by Harbour Publishing ISBN-13: 978-1-905128-17-4, ISBN: 1-905128-17-7 "A fascinating, definitive, and very personal rumination on the history, science, philosophy, art, and literature of walking, by a skilled cultural commentator. Geoff Nicholson, author of Bleeding London and Sex Collectors, turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities—walking. This simple, omnipresent activity has inspired numerous subcultures, literary and artistic legacies, sporting events, p ..." |
 | | Bedlam Burning(1st Edition) by Geoff Nicholson Hardcover, 298 Pages, Published 2002 by Overlook Books International Edition ISBN-13: 978-1-58567-239-4, ISBN: 1-58567-239-4 "In Bedlam Burning, Geoff Nicholson turns his satirical gaze to the ivy covered walls of academia and the rubber rooms of an insane asylum. It all starts at Cambridge University, in the rooms of Dr. John Bentley, a don famous for his book burning parties-"a little, active symbolic literary criticism"-where guests are invited to incinerate books. It is at one such party that Gregory Collins, brilliant but unprepossessing, meets Mike Smi ..." |
 | | Female Ruins (Paperback) by Geoff Nicholson Paperback, 228 Pages, Published 2001 by Overlook Tp ISBN-13: 978-1-58567-194-6, ISBN: 1-58567-194-0 "The daughter of a famous cult architect hooks up with a devoted fan of her late father's work in an adventure that is part love affair, part search for a lost building he supposedly designed and built. Reprint." |
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