Speaking with the Angel
Author(s): Nick Hornby
A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's "Talking Heads". And Colin Firth makes his debut as a fiction writer. The result is a book of completely original stories that have heart, soul and wit. All the writers have given their work free, and Penguin is giving GBP1 per copy sold to the TreeHouse Trust, a charity which is setting up a unique school for autistic children.
General Information
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- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : Penguin Books Ltd
- : 0.169
- : 30 September 2011
- : United Kingdom
- : 01 December 2011
- : books
Other Specifications
- : Nick Hornby
- : Paperback
- : 1
- : 240
More About The Product
'An outstanding good collection . . . the best I have ever come across' - Spectator 'An excellent collection and a very good sampler of contemporary literature' - Guardian
Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of five previous novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) and Slam; three works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Books Critics Circle Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; and a Pocket Penguin book of short stories, Otherwise Pandemonium. He recently wrote the screenplay for the film An Education, which is due for release in the UK in October 2009. Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, north London.
