Hi

I'm Geoff Nicholson, primarily a novelist, though I do plenty of non-fiction, including the recently published THE LOST ART OF WALKING, a quirky, personalised study about how and why people walk, what  walking is, what it  does and what it means.

The best thing anbody ever said about my writing was "Nicholson doesn't just give you what you want, he gives you what you never even knew existed,"  That was Lillian Pizzichini writing about Flesh Guitar for the Independent.

The Barcelona Review said, "Nicholson does good sex."

I was born in Sheffield, England, and I like to say I was self-educated at the universities of Cambridge and Essex, studying English, then European drama.

I wrote plays, and some TV before becoming a novelist.

As a freelancer I've written about music for The Wire, travel for the New York Times, art for Art Review and Modern Painters, design for the Independent, and book reviews for everybody - New York Times, Bookforum, Daily Telegraph, Financial Times, Time Out.

Like any novelist I have, of course written a couple of unproduced screenplays.

I find it hard to descibe what it is that I do.  I've been called a satirist, which I don't object to, but it doesn't seem to be the whole story.    It seems that I write mostly about obsession and obsessives, sometimes sexual, but not always, and I definitely write about the relationships between people and things, about materialism and its alternatives.  Some people tell me this stuff is pretty funny: I really don't know about that anymore.

At various points in my career I've been compared  (favourably) to Evelyn Waugh, JG Ballard and Thomas Pynchon.  These are comparisons I can live with.

For reasons that make more sense on some days that others, I currently live in Los Angeles.