Geoff Nicholson Books

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“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 modern speech and manners.” –Sunday Telegraph

Walking In Ruins is Geoff Nicholson's response to those who ask him to name a favourite walk. He walks by ruins ancient and modern, picturesque and mundane and he reports on what he sees with his eye for the unusual, and his habitual erudition and humour.Ruins are his muse. So he spends the book doing exactly what its title suggests. Locations include an abandoned Los Angeles zoo, now inhabited by two homeless men, a Sheffield housing estate whose road layout survives even though its houses don’t, and a desert town that’s been, er, deserted. Nicholson keeps finding shoes there, though never a matching pair. (The Spectator)

Ian Blackwater was surprised when film rights to his novel Volkswagens and Velociraptors were sold. And more surprised to find himself on location in California, particularly as the novel was set in London. However Ian knows better than to interfere with the creative process and he wants to see how the director Josh Martin goes about transforming the novel into film. Ian gets to see not just the movie making but also Motorhead's Phil's Famous Automotive Freak Show - an assortment of petrol heads and vagabonds rehearsing their own brand of culture fest on the neighbouring lot. Relations between the two - filmmakers and Automotive Freaks - are less than cordial and before long Ian finds himself far more involved with both than he intended.

A collection of short stories by young British writers, this provides an introduction to the work of Iain Banks, Peter Benson, H.S. Bhabra, James Buchan, Patricia Ferguson, Ronald Frame, Patrick Gale, Carlo Gebler, James Lasdun, Deborah Levy, Adam Lively, Aidan Mathews, Candia McWilliam, Geoff Nicholson, Tim Parks, Philip Ridley, Joan Smith, Rupert Thomson, Daisy Waugh and Mathew Yorke. Many of these have already received critical acclaim. The collection is introduced by Graham Swift, author of "Waterland" and "Out of this World".

The author of "Bleeding London" and "Sex Collectors" turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities--walking. This fascinating rumination by a skilled cultural commentator analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages.

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 strangers in search of London¿s heart and soul, mapping out their stories from Acton to Hackney, Chelsea Harbour to Woolwich, in a comic dance of sex and death.

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 the literature, science, philosophy, art, and history of walking.Nicholson finds people who walk only at night, or naked, or in the shape of a cross or a circle, or for thousands of miles at a time, in costume, for causes, or for no reason whatsoever. He examines the history and traditions of walking and its role as inspiration to artists, musicians, and writers like Bob Dylan, Charles Dickens, and Buster Keaton. In The Lost Art of Walking , he brings curiosity, imagination, and genuine insight to a subject that often strides, shuffles, struts, or lopes right by us.

Throughout the land VW Beetles are spontaneously combusting. Nazi skinheads are cruising the streets and a millionaire tycoon and a weather girl have been kidnapped. It falls to Barry Osgathorpe to discover who is responsible.

Eric, ein gestresster Familienvater, plant einen Wohnwagenurlaub, um die Familienharmonie wiederherzustellen. Doch der idyllische Urlaub verwandelt sich schnell in einen Alptraum voller kopfloser Leichen, sadistischer Polizisten und religiöser Eiferer. Ein humorvoller Sommerroman über unerwartete Ereignisse.

Stad van inkt is een onconventionele en donkere thriller waarin een door cartografie bezeten winkelbediende, een brutale jonge fotografe, een kruimeldief met ambities en een meedogenloze maar gevoelige moordenaar en zijn ontstemde handlanger met elkaar te maken krijgen. Maar het is niet het lot dat deze personages aan elkaar linkt, maar iets dat veel concreter en huiveringwekkender is: een groep mysterieuze vrouwen die plotseling opduiken en over hun hele rug slordig getatoeëerde stadsplattegronden hebben. De vrouwen zijn allen ontvoerd maar hebben de dader geen van allen kunnen zien, zijn op een voor hen onbekende plek getatoeëerd en verder ongemoeid weer vrijgelaten. Een van hen duikt op voor een plattegrondenwinkel en ontbloot haar rug, om vervolgens door een man een aftandse Cadillac in gesleurd te worden. Winkelbediende Zak ziet zich – mede door zijn nieuwsgierige vriendin Marilyn – tegen wil en dank een criminele onderwereld in gesleept worden die hij liever links had laten liggen. Naarmate de twee dieper de onderwereld in getrokken worden, wordt duidelijk dat Marilyn er op haar eigen manier al mee verbonden is.