Geoff Nicholson

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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

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. New York Times
    . Retrieved 25 July 2011.
  2. ^ The Lost Art of Walking, Riverhead Books (2008).
  3. ISBN 9781316175101
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  4. ISBN 9781316175101
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  5. ISBN 9780810887770
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  6. ^ "Permanent Vacation | Film 2007 | TV-MEDIA". tv-media.at (in German). Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  7. ^ Aden, Josh (6 September 2007). "Featured destination". Daily Pilot. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  8. ^ "Permanent Vacation". TVGuide.com. Retrieved 21 January 2024.
  9. ^ "Blasts from the Past – SoCal Film Awards". Retrieved 21 January 2024.

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