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31 Songs by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
31 Songs is best-selling author Nicky Hornby's ultimate desert island disks. 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 - refreshingly free of pretension - are a celebration of the joy that certain s ...Show more
31 Songs by Nick Hornby
Category: Music
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
31 Songs by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him - beginning with Teenage Fanclub's 'Your Love Is The Place That I Come From', ending with Patti Smith's 'Pissing in a River', and encompassing singers as varied as Van Morrison and Nelly Furta ...Show more
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secrets '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 en ...Show more
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
'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, then ...Show more
A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
Category: Fiction
Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, A Long Way Down is the story of the Toppers House Four, aka Maureen, Jess, Martin and JJ. A low-rent crowd with absolutely nothing in common - s ...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
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 & Alan Cumming (read by)
Category: Audio Books SPECIALS
Will Behr lives on his own and does not want children, but he does see the point of single mothers, especially if they look like Julie Christie. Then he meets Marcus, whose parents have split up and who is being persecuted by bullies. Marcus discovers that Will has a lot to teach him about life.