Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby was born in 1957, and is the author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About a Boy and How to be Good. He also edited the collection of short stories Speaking With the Angel. He is the pop music critic for the New Yorker. In 1999, he was awarded the E.M.Forster award by the American Academy of Arts and Letters. He lives and works in Highbury, North London.
Featured Books, with extracts, by Nick Hornby
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Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby
Featured on The TV Book Club on More4 on 7 February 2010.
As you would expect in a book about relationships revolving around a music obsession Nick Hornby manages to get in his musical references and loves in to the pages...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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Slam
Nick Hornby
Gripping and funny this novel will appeal to all those who have ever picked up a skateboard and even those who haven't. From the author who brought you High Fidelity and Fever Pitch comes a new novel written for the...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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Slam
Nick Hornby
From the author who brought you ‘High Fidelity’ and ‘Fever Pitch’ comes a new novel written for the teenage audience. It is gripping, funny and will appeal to all those who have ever picked up a skateboard.
Format: Hardback - Released: 04/10/2007
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A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby
Shortlisted for the Whitbread Novel Award. Narrated in turns by Martin, Maureen, Jess and JJ, four strangers with absolutely nothing in common - save where they end up that night - Nick Hornby’s A Long Way Down is a funny,...
Format: Hardback - Released: 05/05/2005
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Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
A book that many a football fan can, no doubt, relate too. Hornby tells the story of his fanatical love of football from the age of 11. The amazing recall of every match, every player, every goal, every touch of...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2000
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Books by Nick Hornby
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Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby
Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe is not enough to hold them together any more. When Annie hates Tucker's 'new release',...
Format: Hardback - Released: 03/09/2009
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Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby
Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who's gone into seclusion in rural America. When Annie dares...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/12/2009
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An Education: The Screenplay
Nick Hornby
Includes the script for major film An Education , which presents the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on her way home...
Format: Paperback - Released: 15/10/2009
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Slam
Nick Hornby
Sam is sixteen and a skater. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. Alicia. Then a little accident happens. Sam can't run away from...
Format: Paperback - Released: 03/04/2008
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The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Nick Hornby
Explores works from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. This work reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV, a pram in the hall or...
Format: Paperback - Released: 28/06/2007
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A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby
Disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp wanted to jump off the top of a tower block, because he pissed his life away. He plans to end it all on New Year's Eve. Because first single-mum Maureen, then Jess and lastly American...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/04/2006
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Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
Presents an account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. This title includes a series of match reports.
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/02/2006
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Not a Star
Nick Hornby
Part of the Open Door series, this is a fiction title.
Format: Paperback - Released: 00/02/2006
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31 Songs
Nick Hornby
Discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop. The author writes about 31 songs that either have some...
Format: Paperback - Released: 06/11/2003
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About a Boy
Nick Hornby
Will is a rich, child-free and irresponsible Londoner in his thirties who, in his search for available women, invents an imaginary son and starts attending single parent meetings. As a result of one of his liaisons he meets Marcus, a...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2002
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How to be Good
Nick Hornby
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's...
Format: Paperback - Released: 04/04/2002
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About a Boy
Nick Hornby
Will is 36, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell...
Format: Paperback - Released: 26/10/2000
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Fever Pitch
Nick Hornby
An account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter.
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2000
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High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit...
Format: Paperback - Released: 05/10/2000
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Juliet, Naked
Nick Hornby
Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe is not enough to hold them together any more. When Annie hates Tucker's 'new release',...
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 24/09/2009
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Slam
Nick Hornby
Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk. It doesn't matter if you don't know who he is, just trust me. Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to...
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 04/10/2007
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A Long Way Down
Nick Hornby
Funny, sad, and wonderfully humane, Nick Hornby's new novel asks some of the big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and whether a slice of pizza can really see you through a long, dark night...
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 05/05/2005
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How to be Good
Nick Hornby
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, Katie's...
Format: CD-Audio - Released: 31/05/2001
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High Fidelity
Nick Hornby
Can you share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? For Rob Fleming, aged 35, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop,...
Format: Audio - Released: 06/04/1995
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About a Boy Book and CD-ROM Pack
Nick Hornby
Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic a very funny story about a very serious subject: love....
Format: Mixed media product - Released: 10/03/2008
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