‘An ardent fan letter from Hornby that makes you want to reread Great Expectations whilst listening to Sign o’the Times‘ Vogue
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The essential gift for lovers of Prince, Dickens and everyone in between!

In Nick Hornby’s completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could. Where did their magic come from? How did they work so hard and produce so much? How did they manage or give in to the restlessness and intensity of their creativity? How did they use it, and did it kill them?

With wit, curiosity and deep admiration Nick Hornby traces their extraordinary lives – from their difficult beginnings to the women they fell for to their limitless energy for work, to their money and the movies – and brilliantly illuminates their very particular kind of genius.

‘I love this. It’s smart and funny and elegantly persuasive’ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of Becoming Dickens

In Nick Hornby’s completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could. Where did their magic come from? How did they work so hard and produce so much? How did they manage or give in to the restlessness and intensity of their creativity? How did they use it, and did it kill them?

With wit, curiosity and deep admiration Nick Hornby traces their extraordinary lives – from their difficult beginnings to the women they fell for to their limitless energy for work, to their money and the movies – and brilliantly illuminates their very particular kind of genius.

‘I love this. It’s smart and funny and elegantly persuasive’ Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of Becoming Dickens

Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn’t on it – even though she’s just become his latest ex. He’s got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can’t move on. He’s stuck in a really deep groove – and it’s called Laura. Soon, he’s asking himself some big questions: about love, about life – and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.

A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come.

‘It will give enormous pleasure at the same time as expanding in a small but worthwhile way, the range of English literature’ Independent on Sunday

‘Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true’ Independent

‘A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving’ Financial Times

‘Hilarious’ Daily Telegraph

‘Highly entertaining’ Sunday Times
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Make them laugh, and they’re yours forever . . .

Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn’t want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh.

So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself to London, and overnight she becomes the lead in a new BBC comedy, Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation’s hearts.

Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes. But when life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. How long can they keep going before it’s time to change the channel?
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‘Warm, funny, touching . . . winningly perceptive about human relationships and changing social trends’ Daily Telegraph

‘Like all Hornby’s best work, it is both hugely enjoyable and deceptively artful’ Spectator

‘A beguiling, thoroughly enjoyable read’ Sunday Times

‘Hugely enjoyable’ Sunday Mirror

‘Resolutely, winningly light-hearted’ Observer

‘Hornby’s sunniest novel’ Metro

Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Will loves his life. Living carefree off the royalties of his dad’s Christmas song, he’s rich, unattached and has zero responsibilities – just the way he likes it.

But when Will meets Marcus, an awkward twelve-year-old who listens to Joni Mitchell and accidentally kills ducks with loaves of bread, an unlikely friendship starts to bloom.

Can this odd duo teach each another how to finally act their age?

Hugely funny and equally heartfelt, Nick Hornby’s classic proves you’re never too old to grow up. Perfect for fans of David Nicholls and Mike Gayle.
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‘A stunner of a novel. Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube-gripping’ Marie Claire

‘About the awful, hilarious, embarrassing places where children and adults meet, and Hornby has captured it with delightful precision’ Irish Times

‘It takes a writer with real talent to make this work, and Hornby has it – in buckets’ Literary Review

‘Hilarious, sophisticated, compulsive’ The Times
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‘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 her husband 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 taking in 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 it’s time to move. . .

This laugh-out-loud novel, from the bestselling author of About a Boy and High Fidelity, 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.
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‘Pins you in your armchair and won’t let go . . . How to be Good? How to be bloody marvellous, 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 so brilliant . . . Hornby’s best book since Fever Pitch’ Lynn Truss, The Times

‘A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book. . . inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming’ Independent

For many people watching football is mere entertainment, to some it’s more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself.

But, for Nick Hornby, his devotion to the game has provided one of few constants in a life where the meaningful things – like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships, both parental and romantic – have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love for Arsenal.

Brimming with wit and honesty, Fever Pitch, catches perfectly what it really means to be a football fan – and in doing so, what it means to be a man.

‘Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations’ Irish Times

‘Funny, wise and true’ Roddy Doyle

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‘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 eighteen-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 on living?

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.
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‘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

‘One of my favourite novels’ Zoë Kravitz in Vulture
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Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable break-ups? Rob does.

But Laura isn’t on it – even though she’s just become his latest ex.

Finding he can’t get over Laura, record-store owner Rob decides to revisit his relationship top hits to figure out what went wrong. But soon, he’s asking himself some big questions: about relationships, about life and about his own self-destructive tendencies.

Astutely observed and wickedly funny, Nick Hornby’s cult classic explores love, loss and the need for a good playlist. A must for readers of David Nicholls and music geeks everywhere!
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‘A triumphant first novel. True to life, very funny and moving’ Financial Times

‘Extremely cleverly observed’ Mail on Sunday

‘If this book was a record, we would be calling it an instant classic. Because that’s what it is’ Guardian

‘Leaves you believing not only in the redemptive power of music but above all the redemptive power of love. Funny and wise, sweet and true’ Independent