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31 Songs by Nick Hornby
Category: Performing Arts
Through thirty-one songs that he either loves or has loved, Nick Hornby tells us what music means to his life. These personal and passionate pieces are a celebration of the joy that certain songs have given him. Together with additional writings on music from his column in the New Yorker - seen in the U ...Show more
31 Songs by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ...Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else'. In his first non-fiction work since "Fever Pitch", Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are jus ...Show more
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
"How cool was Will Freeman?" Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nic ...Show more
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelityand A Long Way Down. Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women - women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will - migh ...Show more
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
About a Boyis Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller'How cool was Will Freeman?'Too cool! At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager. He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also found a great way to score with women- attend single par ...Show more
Click by David Almond & Eoin Colfer & Nick Hornby & Roddy Doyle et al
Category: Children's Fiction
A strange bequest. A mysterious journey. A man who changed the world. Maggie and Jason
Dickens and Prince - A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
Category: Reference
When Prince's 1987 record Sign o' the Times was rereleased in 2020, the album came with dozens of songs that weren't on the original. In awe, Nick Hornby began to wonder, Who else ever produced this much? He soon found his answer in Victorian novelist Charles Dickens, who died more than a hundred years ...Show more
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
Category: Reference
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems complet ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Category: Biography | Series: Penguin Modern Classics Ser.
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fa ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
Category: Children's Fiction
Hornby's entertaining and poignant account of love and footballAs a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the stronges ...Show more
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. So she leaves Blackpool and her family behind, takes herself off to London, and gets a job behind the cosmetics counter of a Kensington department store, wh ...Show more