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  • 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

    $16.99 USD

  • 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

    $14.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Food Chain

    by Geoff Nicholson ...
    "[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

    $12.39 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    Was $6.99 USD Now $5.99 USD

  • The Miranda

    by Geoff Nicholson ...
    The volunteer would complain, of course. I suppose he couldn’t help it. He felt angry or self-righteous or betrayed. He said this was not what he’d signed up for, this was breaking a promise, breaking the rules, this was not the way the good guys conducted themselves. He might say this was a violation of his human rights, a war crime, a crime anyway. And I’d say, “You’re probably right,” and then ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

  • The Hollywood Dodo

    A Novel

    by Geoff Nicholson ...
    From the critically acclaimed author of The Food Chain and Footsucker comes a sophisticated comedy about three people caught in the Hollywood machine.Following the death of his wife, Henry Cadwallader, an English doctor, insists on accompanying his aspiring actress daughter, Dorothy, on a trip to Hollywood. He fears she will fall prey to corruption and sleaze, but finds that it is actually he who ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $12.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • 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

    $14.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • The Book of Sheffield

    A City in Short Fiction

    by Margaret Drabble, Philip Hensher, Gregory Norminton, Geoff Nicholson, Naomi Frisby, Tim Etchells, Johny Pitts, Helen Mort, Desiree Reynolds, Karl Riordan ...
    Series series Reading the City
    Known for both its industrial roots and arboreal abundance, Sheffield has always been a city of two halves.From its botanical gardens and elegant parks, to the brutalist high-rise estates of Park Hill, and the hinterland nightclubs of ‘Centertainment’, it is a city caught between the forges of the past and the melting pot of the present.Bringing together new short stories from some of the city’s ... Read more

    $7.37 USD

  • 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

    $10.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus