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Geoff Nicholson has been walking his whole life. Part urban explorer, part psychogeographer, rambler and flaneur, 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 damages and even destroys us

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Joe has a plan to walk around the world without ever leaving his backyard, and waiting for his violent past to catch up to him

In "Bedlam Burning, " Geoff Nicholson takes deadly satiric aim at the ivy-covered walls of academia and the rubber rooms of insane asylums. When the debut novel of Gregory Collins is accepted by a publisher he seems set on a course for literary stardom. There's just one problem: he doesn't quite have the looks to match his talent, and his publisher wants a photo to put on the book jacket. He asks his handsome (but dim) college classmate, Mike ...

Subtitled "The History, Science, Philosophy, Literature, Theory and Practice of Pedestrianism". Walking was once our principle method of transport but now, for the able bodied, it's either something we barely notice or it has become a brief lifestyle choice. Nicholson brings pedestrianism back to the centre of life by musing on his own walks (both challenging and unchallenging) and by looking at the thoughts and actions of those inspired by wa...

A satirical take on modern Britain.

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Stad van inkt is een onconventionele en donkere thriller waarin een door cartografie bezeten winkelbediende, een brutale jonge fotografe, een kruimeldief met ambities en een meedogenloze maar gevoelige moordenaar en zijn ontstemde handlanger met elkaar te maken krijgen. Maar het is niet het lot dat deze personages aan elkaar linkt, maar iets dat veel concreter en huiveringwekkender is: een groep mysterieuze vrouwen die plotseling opduiken en o...

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 ruthless but vulnerable killer and his disgruntl...

The author of "Bleeding London" and "Sex Collectors" turns his eye to the intellectual and cultural history of that most common of activities--walking. This fascinating rumination by a skilled cultural commentator analyzes the hows, wheres, and whys of walking through the ages.

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 is being corrupted at every turn.On the fli...

A comedy of human behaviour and philosophical debate.

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With a dash of "Dead Poet's Society" and a wink at "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, " Nicholson takes on the themes of madness and the literary life.

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Barry Osgathorpe, known in the seventies as Ishmael the Zen Road Warrior, has decided to hole up for the nineties. A person can't even drive his Volkswagen Beetle with a clear conscience any more, for fear of polluting the environment. Yet, powerful forces are converging that will get him on the road again. When Barry learns that Volkswagens are being blown up all over the country, that a gang of skinheads is cruising the streets in a fleet of...

Virgil Marcel is the golden boy of L.A. cuisine - an all-American Wolfgang Puck with rock-star good looks, a restauranteur's restauranteur and owner of Trimalchio's, the trendiest restaurant in a city of trendy restaurants. A magnet for the beautiful and the powerful, Trimalchio's is the hottest ticket in town - Morton's, Le Dome and Spago all exist to absorb the hapless players who can't get a table at Trimalchio's. Out of the blue, he receiv...

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