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Walking on Thin Air

A Life's Journey in 99 Steps

by Geoff Nicholson ...

Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking, why we do it, how it benefits us and, in some cases, how it can damage and even destroy us. Geoff's recent diagnosis with a rare, incurable form of cancer has made him all too aware of his own mortality. ... Read more

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Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Wherever he is and wherever he goes in the world, he walks and writes about what he sees and feels. Here he reflects on the nature of walking, why we do it, how it benefits us and, in some cases, how it can damage and even destroy us. Geoff's recent diagnosis with a rare, incurable form of cancer has made him all too aware of his own mortality.
... Read more
Bleeding London

A Novel

by Geoff Nicholson ...

The author of The City Under the Skin maps out "a delightful fiction, and a wonderfully exasperated love letter to a great city" ( Kirkus Reviews).Like any international metropolis, London draws the most diverse characters to its bustling streets. Meet Mick. He's on his way to the smoke from the provinces. He's got six guys to find with only their names to go on, a lust for vengeance, and a city ... Read more

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The author of The City Under the Skin maps out "a delightful fiction, and a wonderfully exasperated love letter to a great city" ( Kirkus Reviews).Like any international metropolis, London draws the most diverse characters to its bustling streets. Meet Mick. He's on his way to the smoke from the provinces. He's got six guys to find with only their names to go on, a lust for vengeance, and a city
... Read more
Flesh Guitar

by Geoff Nicholson ...

Into the Havoc Bar and Grill, an end-of-the-world watering hole on the outer fringes of the metropolis, walks the entertainment, Jenny Slade. She has the look down: beat-up leather jacket, motorcycle boots, cheekbones, and wild hair. But she’s no ordinary guitar heroine. Her guitar is like none her audience has ever seen, part deadly weapon, part creature from some alien lagoon. Is that hair? Are ... Read more

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Into the Havoc Bar and Grill, an end-of-the-world watering hole on the outer fringes of the metropolis, walks the entertainment, Jenny Slade. She has the look down: beat-up leather jacket, motorcycle boots, cheekbones, and wild hair. But she’s no ordinary guitar heroine. Her guitar is like none her audience has ever seen, part deadly weapon, part creature from some alien lagoon. Is that hair? Are
... Read more
Female Ruins

A Novel

by Geoff Nicholson ...

"An elegantly constructed and often funny story about a man, a woman and . . . 'the greatest modern English architect never to have built a building'" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Geoff Nicholson's novel tells the story of Christopher Howell, a cult architect who allegedly built just one building, and the search for that fabled building―reputedly a wild, willful amalgam of styles ranging ... Read more

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"An elegantly constructed and often funny story about a man, a woman and . . . 'the greatest modern English architect never to have built a building'" ( The New York Times Book Review ).Geoff Nicholson's novel tells the story of Christopher Howell, a cult architect who allegedly built just one building, and the search for that fabled building―reputedly a wild, willful amalgam of styles ranging
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The Food Chain

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"[A] maniacal little caper . . . Curiosity demands that the reader devour each page to find out exactly what the author wants to say" ( Los Angeles Times).Frank runs the Golden Boy fast-food chain, his wife, Mary, is having an affair with the chef, and his son, Virgil, modeled for the Golden Boy logo when he was a baby. All three get embroiled in the machinations of the Everlasting Club, a British ... Read more

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"[A] maniacal little caper . . . Curiosity demands that the reader devour each page to find out exactly what the author wants to say" ( Los Angeles Times).Frank runs the Golden Boy fast-food chain, his wife, Mary, is having an affair with the chef, and his son, Virgil, modeled for the Golden Boy logo when he was a baby. All three get embroiled in the machinations of the Everlasting Club, a British
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Bedlam Burning

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The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this Whitbread Prize–finalist novel.It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties—"a little active, symbolic literary criticism"—in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, and then toss them into a ... Read more

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The acclaimed author of Bleeding London spins a yarn of academia, lunacy, and the blurry lines between them in this Whitbread Prize–finalist novel.It all starts at Cambridge University, where Dr. John Bentley throws his book burning parties—"a little active, symbolic literary criticism"—in which guests are invited to state their grudges against their least favorite books, and then toss them into a
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Footsucker

by Geoff Nicholson ...

Geoff Nicholson, the reigning master of obsessive black literary humor, brings us his riskiest novel yet, delving into the erotic world of a foot fetishist. Nicholson's unnamed narrator is a serious man with a full life. He reads newspapers, follows polit ... Read more

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Geoff Nicholson, the reigning master of obsessive black literary humor, brings us his riskiest novel yet, delving into the erotic world of a foot fetishist. Nicholson's unnamed narrator is a serious man with a full life. He reads newspapers, follows polit
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Everything and More

A Novel of Shopping and Terrorism

by Geoff Nicholson ...

"A darkly comic cornucopia set in a mythic London department store" from the author of Hunters & Gatherers, "a comic satirist of biting precision" ( Kirkus Reviews)."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 ... Read more

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"A darkly comic cornucopia set in a mythic London department store" from the author of Hunters & Gatherers, "a comic satirist of biting precision" ( Kirkus Reviews)."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
... Read more
The Lost Art of Walking

The History, Science, and Literature of Pedestrianism

by Geoff Nicholson ...

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, ... Read more

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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,
... Read more
The City Under the Skin

A Novel

by Geoff Nicholson ...

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 ... Read more

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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
... Read more
Sex Collectors

The Secret World of Consumers, Connoisseurs, Curators, Creators, Dealers, Bibliographers, and Accumulators of ',Erotica',

by Geoff Nicholson ...

Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors.In Sex Collectors, Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment of these obsessives around the world. From the Florida grandma with five million dollars' worth of sexual ... Read more

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Though you might not encounter the subject in Artforum or stumble across it at Sotheby's, the thriving business of erotica is a mixture of sophistication and seduction, an underground world of eccentric artists and serious collectors.In Sex Collectors, Geoff Nicholson hunts down an assortment of these obsessives around the world. From the Florida grandma with five million dollars' worth of sexual
... Read more
Still Life with Volkswagens

by Geoff Nicholson ...

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. ... Read more

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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.
... Read more

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