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Walking on Thin Air

Walk Listen Create Walking Writers’ Salon guest Geoff Nicholson talks about walking, and how he uses walking to research both novels and non-fiction books – the latest of which is The Suburbanist published by Harbour Books East.

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Walking on Thin Air

"A writer who walks and a walker who writes" is how Geoff Nicholson modestly describes himself. He has written a lot of books including a couple of novels about walking: Bleeding London (Shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize) and The Miranda.

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Walking on Thin Air

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

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Two people who have helped in developing the vibrant community of walk · listen · create have unexpectedly died in the last couple of weeks. One of whom, Geoff Nicholson, I’ve known since the 1980s but only at a distance, and the other, Edwin Hind, only since 2016, who was a not-so-far off neighbour of

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A walk with an open net.

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