Nick Hornby

High fidelity is een boek van Nick Hornby uit 1995. Het werd in 2000 verfilmd onder dezelfde naam door Stephen Frears. Het verhaal gaat over Rob Fleming, een cynische dertiger die eigenaar is van een platenzaak en met een liefdesrelatie die beëindigd is. Zowel de zaak als Flemings liefdesleven lopen niet al te goed en …

About a Boy is een in 1998 verschenen roman van de Britse schrijver Nick Hornby. De titel verwijst naar een gelijknamig liedje van de Amerikaanse band Nirvana, die in de roman een rol speelt. About a Boy werd in 2002 verfilmd.

De lange weg naar beneden is een roman van de Britse schrijver Nick Hornby uit 2005. Het vertelt het verhaal van vier personages, Maureen, Martin, JJ en Jess, die elkaar op oudejaarsavond tegenkomen op het dak van een warenhuis in Londen wanneer ze allemaal zelfmoord willen plegen.

A wise and hilarious novel from the bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity, and About a Boy.A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to learn “how to be good”—whatever that means, and …

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 …

Nick Hornby returns to his roots-music and messy relationships-in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which …

Just when everything is coming together for Sam, his girlfriend Alicia drops a bombshell. Make that ex-girlfriend-- because by the time she tells him she's pregnant, they've already called it quits. Sam does not want to be a teenage dad. His mom had him at sixteen and has made it very clear how having a baby so young …

The Polysyllabic Spree is a 2004 collection of Nick Hornby's "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns in The Believer. The book collates his columns from September 2003 to November 2004, inclusive. It also includes excerpts from such authors as Anton Chekhov and Charles Dickens. In it, Hornby lists the books he bought each …

“All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do.” —Nick Hornby, from Songbook Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin… Songbook is Nick …

Speaking with the Angel is a collection of short stories edited by Nick Hornby and published by Riverhead Trade in 2001. Featuring stories from twelve established writers, the book acted as a fundraising effort for TreeHouse, a charity school for severely autistic children in London where Hornby's son was a student. …