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English
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Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues. Joseph is shaking off the memory of his last date, a girl who ticked all the right boxes and also drove him up the wall. On an average Saturday morning in a butcher's shop in North London, Lucy and Joseph meet on opposite sides of the counter. She is a teacher and mother of two, with a...
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2005
Language
English
Description
A low-rent crowd with absolutely nothing in common - save where they end up that New Year's Eve night. And what they do next, of course. Funny, sad, and wonderfully humane, Nick Hornby's new novel asks some of the big questions: about life and death, strangers and friendship, love and pain, and whether a slice of pizza can really see you through a long, dark night of the soul.
5) About a boy
Author
Publisher
Penguin
Pub. Date
2016
Language
English
Description
'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 parents' groups full of available (and grateful) mothers, all hoping to meet a Nice Guy. Which is how Will meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old on the planet. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Joni Mitchell and Mozart,...
Author
Publisher
Penguin Books
Pub. Date
2015
Language
English
Description
'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. Or at least, how he does it: whether plunging into a biography of Dickens whilst his children are destroying something in the room next door or devouring a whole series of children's books whilst on holiday. Hornby is the intelligent, committed but sceptical reader we'd all like to be.
Publisher
Universal Pictures
Pub. Date
2019
Language
English
Description
Rose Byrne, Ethan Hawke and Chris O'Dowd star in this US comedy based on Nick Hornby's novel. Fearing her relationship with film studies teacher Duncan (O'Dowd) is going nowhere, Annie (Byrne) becomes increasingly frustrated with Duncan's obsession with 1990s cult rocker Tucker Crowe (Hawke) and his insistence on continually updating his fan site dedicated to the former star. When a rare recording of Tucker's most famous album is sent to Duncan, Annie...