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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 s

'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?'For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all . . . but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, theneighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party. They've stolen his idea - but brought their own reasons.Yet it's hard to jump when you've got an audience queuing impatiently behind you. A few heated words and some slices if cold pizza later and these four strangers are suddenly allies. But is their unlikely friendship a good enough reason to carry onliving?Shortlisted for the 2005 Whitbread Award and the Commonwealth Writers Prize, A Long Way Down is a darkly hilarious and moving novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby.__________________________'Hornby's best yet' Literary Review'Impossible to put down' Ruth Rendell, Guardian'Some of the finest writing I've ever had the pleasure of reading' Johnny Depp

Nick Hornbys erfolgreichster RomanKinder sind so ungefähr das letzte, was sich Will Freeman, 36 Jahre alt und überzeugter Single, wünscht. Er lebt gut und faul von den Tantiemen eines Weihnachtslieds, das sein Vater 1938 komponiert hat. Seine Tageverbringt er mit Nichtstun, und an den Abenden bemüht er sich zur Zerstreuung um junge, alleinerziehende, gutaussehende Mütter.Marcus hat mit seinen zwölf Jahren ganz andere Probleme. Seine Eltern sind getrennt, und seine Mutter hat die beängstigendeNeigung, ständig in Tränen auszubrechen. In der Schule ist Marcus nicht zuletzt wegen seiner Kleidung, seines Haarschnitts und seines Musikgeschmacks ein Auáenseiter. Zum Glück bringt ihn das Schicksal mit Will zusammen. Und was das Schicksal einemschenkt, das lässt man so schnell nicht wieder los Nick Hornbys erfolgreichster Roman wurde verfilmt mit Hugh Grant, Toni Colette und Rachel Weisz. Der Film wurde wie das Buch ein riesiger Erfolg.

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 - might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, thenhe was really onto something. Single mothers - bright, attractive, available women - thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them.

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 since the moment he was conceived. Call it predestiny. Or call it preschool. Fever Pitch is his tribute to a lifelong obsession. Part autobiography, part comedy, part incisive analysis of insanity, Hornby'saward-winning memoir captures the fever pitch of fandom-its agony and ecstasy, its community, its defining role in thousands of young men's coming-of-age stories. Fever Pitch is one for the home team. But above all, it is one for everyone who knows whatit really means to have a losing season.

Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad recordcollection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films

How to be Good is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling novel on life, love and charity 'I am in a car park in Leeds when I tell my husband I don't want to be married to him any more...' London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With herhusband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too. A far-too-good person who starts committing crimes of charity like takingin the homeless and giving their kids' toys away. Suddenly Katie's feeling very bad about herself, and thinking that if charity begins at home, then maybe its time to move...This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and HighFidelity, will have you gripped from start to finish and will appeal to fans of David Nicholls and Jonathan Coe, as well as readers in need of a moral compass everywhere. Pins you in your armchair ad won't let go...How to be Good? How to be bloodymarvellous, more like. (Mail on Sunday). It does exactly what it says on the cover. Hornby's prose is artful and effortless, his spiky wit as razored as a number-two cut. (Independent). The writing is so funny, and the set-pieces sobrilliant...Hornby's best book since Fever Pitch. (Lynn Truss, The Times).

Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked.Is she really going to find real, proper, feel-it-deep-down-in-your-boots love on a damp and windy seafront? Or perhaps she should follow her heart and pursue Tucker, the reclusive American rock star, who keeps emailing her his smart advice.But between Annie and her second chance lie a few obstacles. There's Malcom, the world's most judgmental therapist, and Barnesy, the north's most extrovert dancer. There's what men and women will do and won't do for love. And, of course there's Tucker

*THE SIDE-SPLITTING NEW COMIC SHORT FROM ONE OF BRITAIN'S BEST-LOVED WRITERS, SOON TO BE A MAJOR BBC TV SERIES*______________________________Each week, Tom and Louise meet for a quick drink in the pub before they go to meet their marriage counsellor. Married for years and with two children, a recent incident has exposed the fault lines in their relationship in a way that Tom, for one, doesnot wish to think about.In the ten minutes in the pub they talk about the agenda for the session, what they talked about last week, what they will definitely not talk about with the counsellor, and how much better off they are than the couple whose counselling slot immediatelyprecedes their own.Over the ten weeks that follow Tom and Louise begin to wonder: what if marriage is like a computer? When you take it apart to see how it works you might just be left with a million pieces you can't put back together . . .

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's done.From historical tomes to comic books, literary novels to children's stories, politicalthrillers to travel writing, Stuff I've Been Reading details Nick's thoughts and experiences on books by George Orwell, J.M. Barrie, Muriel Spark, Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jennifer Egan, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and many, manymore. This wonderfully entertaining journey in reading differs from all other reviews or critical appreciations - it takes into account the role that books actually play in our lives.This book, which is classic Hornby, confirms the novelist's status as one of the world's most exciting curators of culture. It will be loved by fans of About a Boy and High Fidelity, as well as readers of Will Self, Zadie Smith, Stewart Lee and CharlieBrooker.