Geoff Nicholson

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] and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and 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.

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)

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)

References

1. Nussbaum, Emily (18 June 2006). "If You Show Me Yours". New York Times. Retrieved 25 July 2011.
2. The Lost Art of Walking, Riverhead Books (2008).
3. Robert L. Caserio & Clement Hawes, The Cambridge History of the English Novel (2012). https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AHdhBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT1226&ots=-a0Cd95n_M&dq=%22geoff%20nicholson%22%20martin%20amis&pg=PT1226#v=onepage&q=%22geoff%20nicholson%22%20martin%20amis&f=false
4. Robert L. Caserio & Clement Hawes, The Cambridge History of the English Novel (2012). https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=AHdhBAAAQBAJ&lpg=PT1226&ots=-a0Cd95n_M&dq=%22geoff%20nicholson%22%20martin%20amis&pg=PT1226#v=onepage&q=%22geoff%20nicholson%22%20martin%20amis&f=false
5. Jamieson Ridenhour, In Darkest London: The Gothic Cityscape in Victorian Literature (2013). https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=wf2HEo1RGFwC&lpg=PA145&ots=NA_zsgo-RE&dq=%22geoff%20nicholson%22%20martin%20amis&pg=PA145#v=onepage&q=%22geoff%20nicholson%22%20martin%20amis&f=false

External links

• Geoff Nicholson at Tripod.com (personal site)
• Geoff Nicholson at Complete Review
• An interview with Geoff Nicholson on Notebook on Cities and Culture