Geoff Nicholson is a British novelist and non-fiction writer. He was born in Sheffield

Sheffield

Sheffield is a city and metropolitan borough of South Yorkshire, England. Its name derives from the River Sheaf, which runs through the city. Historically a part of the West Riding of Yorkshire, and with some of its southern suburbs annexed from Derbyshire, the city has grown from its largely...

 and was educated at the Universities of Cambridge and Essex

University of Essex

The University of Essex is a British campus university whose original and largest campus is near the town of Colchester, England. Established in 1963 and receiving its Royal Charter in 1965...

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He is generally regarded as a satirist, in the tradition of Evelyn Waugh

Evelyn Waugh

Arthur Evelyn St. John Waugh , known as Evelyn Waugh, was an English writer of novels, travel books and biographies. He was also a prolific journalist and reviewer...

,though his writing has also been compared, favorably, with that of Ben Jonson

Ben Jonson

Benjamin Jonson was an English Renaissance dramatist, poet and actor. A contemporary of William Shakespeare, he is best known for his satirical plays, particularly Volpone, The Alchemist, and Bartholomew Fair, which are considered his best, and his lyric poems...

, Martin Amis

Martin Amis

Martin Louis Amis is a British novelist, the author of many novels including Money and London Fields . He is currently Professor of Creative Writing at the Centre for New Writing at the University of Manchester, but will step down at the end of the 2010/11 academic year...

 and Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American novelist. For his most praised novel, Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon received the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature...

. 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

Ambit (magazine)

Ambit is a literary periodical published in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1959 by Dr Martin Bax, a London paediatrician.Uniting art, prose, poetry and reviews, the magazine appears quarterly and is distributed internationally. Notable Ambit contributors have included J. G. Ballard, Eduardo...

, a literary magazine established in 1959 by paediatrician Martin Bax

Martin Bax

Martin Bax is a British consultant paediatrician, who, in addition to his medical career, founded the Arts magazine Ambit in 1959. He lives in London and continues to practice, and edit Ambit, along with Kate Pemberton and Geoff Nicholson. Since he created it, Ambit has published poetry, prose and...

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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)

Non-Fiction

• Big Noises (1991)
• Day Trips to the Desert (1993)
• Sex Collectors (2006)
• "The Lost Art of Walking" (2008)

External links

• http://geoff-nicholson.tripod.com/
• Geoff Nicholson at the complete review
  Complete review
  complete review is a literary website founded in March 1999. It is best known for reviews of novels in English translation, in particular drawing attention to otherwise neglected contemporary works from around the world, but there are also reviews of classics, non-fiction, drama and poetry...