Geoff Nicholson

Geoff Nicholson

Geoff Nicholson (born 4 March 1953) is a British novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Sheffield and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Essex.

He is generally regarded as a satirist, in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh, though his writing has also been compared, favorably, with that of Ben Jonson, Martin Amis and Thomas Pynchon. 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 three works of non-fiction and many short stories. His novel "Bleeding London" was shortlisted for the 1997 Whitbread Prize.

Geoff Nicholson is currently fiction editor of Ambit, a literary magazine established in 1959 by paediatrician Martin Bax.

=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)

Non-Fiction

* "Big Noises" (1991) Short biographies of famous guitarists.
* "Day Trips to the Desert" (1993) Travel writing.
*"Sex Collectors" (2006) About people collecting erotica.
*"The Lost Art of Walking" (2008) Forthcoming - about pedestrianism.

hort stories in anthologies

*"The Minerva Book of Short Stories 6" (1994) ('The Guitar and Other Animals')
*"Well Sorted: the London Short Story Collection 2" (1995) ('Lost Maps of London')
*"Telling Stories Volume 4: the Best of BBC Radio's Short Fiction" (1995) ('Some Metal Buildings')
*"Time Out Book of London Short Stories 2" (2000) ('Wittgenstein's Mattress')

=External links=
* [http://www.geocities.com/geoffnicholson_99/mypage.html Geoff Nicholson's website]
* [http://www.complete-review.com/authors/nicholsong.htm Geoff Nicholson on The Complete Review]


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