A night of words, pictures and kind rewinds featuring a rare screening of Permanent Vacation, a Q&A (and readings) from author Geoff Nicholson & the film's director W. Scott Peake
Doors: 7pm, the event will begin at 7:30
Tickets: £7
To celebrate the publication of his latest book Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps, join the acclaimed writer Geoff Nicholson for a special one off screening of Permanent Vacation.
Adapted from Nicholson's novel What We Did On Our Holidays, this dark cult comedy classic from 2007 directed by W Scott Peake and starring David Carradine centres around Eric, a mild-mannered Englisman who decides to treat his wife and close to grown up children to one last vacation before the kids leave the nest. Instead, however, of a peaceful break from routine Eric finds himself thrust into a world of sexual decay, headless corpses, circus dwarves, sadistic cops, and one old wise man. Funny and enchantingly off the wall, Permanent Vacation proves just how much baggage one family can carry with them when they venture far from home.
After the screening Geoff and director W Scott Peake will be in conversation with the writer Travis Elborough.
Copies of Geoff's new book, Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps, will be on sale on the night.
watch the trailer for the film here: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0475431/
Geoff Nicholson is the author of over twenty books, including the acclaimed novels Bleeding
London, Gravity's Volkswagen and The City Under the Skin and such classics of psychogeographical nonfiction as The Lost Art of Walking and Walking in Ruins, saluted by the Los Angeles Review of Books for doing 'for perambulation what Robert Burton did for dejection in The Anatomy of Melancholy.
His latest Walking on Thin Air: A Life’s Journey in 99 Steps has just been published by Saqi Books, is a witty and wise meditation on life, art, writing, walking, illness and mortality.
'Geoff Nicholson is good company out on the road. He locates the unfamiliar in the familiar – watching, listening, noticing, talking steadily without ever outstaying his welcome. His prose takes flight. The anecdotes lighten the load for contemporary pilgrims. Hard walking as easy reading.’
Iain Sinclair