Geoff Nicholson obituary

<p>Author whose work examined the links between emotions, behaviour and location, notably in his novel Bleeding London</p><p>During 2014, hundreds of photographers, amateurs and professionals, Londoners and tourists, snapped images of 58,000 London streets. The vast project – inspired by the novel Bleeding London – culminated in an <a href="https://www.london.gov.uk/take-part/events/2015-07-08/bleeding-london-exhibition">exhibition at City Hall</a> and prompted imitation by camera enthusiasts elsewhere in Europe. It was one of the high points of the 50-year career of the author Geoff Nicholson, who has died aged 71.</p><p>Bleeding London was the 10th of 17 novels that Nicholson wrote between 1987 and 2024, alongside 10 works of nonfiction, a plethora of short stories and anthology contributions, and several popular blogs. His surreal, complex and sometimes transgressive comedies were only erratically successful from a commercial point of view, although his third novel, What We Did on Our Holidays (1990) was turned into a 2007 film, <a href="https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2p61jx">Permanent Vacation</a>, starring <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/film/2009/jun/05/obituary-david-carradine">David Carradine</a>.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/books/2025/feb/17/geoff-nicholson-obituary">Continue reading...</a>