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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.

"How to be Good" is Nick Hornby's hilarious bestselling novel on life, love and charity. '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 its 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. "Pins you in your armchair ad won't let go..."How to be Good?" How to be bloody marvellous, more like".

Now in paperback-"The New York Times" bestselling novel of rock 'n roll, super fandom, and love, by the beloved author of "About a Boy" and "High Fidelity." 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 mirrors the place; Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who's gone into seclusion in rural America-or at least that's what his fans think. Duncan is obsessed with Tucker's work, to the point of derangement, and when Annie dares to go public on her dislike of his latest album, there are quite unexpected, life-changing consequences for all three. Nick Hornby uses this intriguing canvas to explore why it is we so often let the early promise of relationships, ambition and indeed life evaporate. And he comes to some surprisingly optimistic conclusions about the struggle to live up to one's promise.

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary. 'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine (taking off where The Complete Polysyllabic Spree finished), 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. Admiring Ian McEwen's On Chesil Beach, he points out a surprising anachronism. Reading Cormac McCarthy's The Road, he wonders why 'unflinching' is a term of praise among critics. And who but Nick Hornby could successfully juxtapose a discussion of a book on the Band with one on the Stasi? These accounts of one reader's experience of buying and reading, and sometimes not reading, books differ from all other reviews or critical appreciations - they take into account the role that books actually play in the lives of readers. This book, which is classic Hornby, confirms the novelist's status as one of the world's most exciting curators of culture. It will be loved by fans of About a Boy and High Fidelity, as well as readers of Will Self, Zadie Smith, Stewart Lee and Charlie Brooker. Nick Hornby has captivated readers and achieved widespread critical acclaim for his comic, well-observed novels About a Boy, High Fidelity, How to be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award), Slam and Juliet, Naked. His four additional works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch, 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award), The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Pray are also available from Penguin.

Will Freeman a világ leggondtalanabb embere: se felesége, se gyereke, de még állása sincsen - vígan éldegél minden idők legnépszerűbb karácsonyi dalának jogdíjaiból, melyet az apja írt valaha. Egyetlen bánata, hogy a nők azt szeretik, ha egy férfinak céljai vannak az életben, ki kell hát találnia valamit, ami a szemükben izgalmassá teszi. Egy egyedül álló apa igazán különleges, sőt hősies színben tűnhet fel előttük, így aztán Will úgy dönt, gyereke lesz. Persze nem igazából (még csak az kéne!); elvégre egy fiktív gyerek is elég ahhoz, hogy a nőknek imponáljon. Az egyedül álló szülők klubjában azonban -balszerencséjére- nemcsak egy frenetikus szőke nővel ismerkedik meg, hanem egy furcsa, tizenkét éves fiúval is. Ettől kezdve Will, a -szabad ember- már nem is annyira szabad - a különc Marcusnak ugyanis, akit az iskolában módszeresen kínoznak a többiek, az élete függ tőle, hogy valaki végre megtanítsa rá, hogyan kell gyereknek lenni. S ki más lenne erre alkalmasabb, mint Will Freeman, aki igazából sohasem nőtt fel, s ugyanaz tölti ki az életét ma is, mint ami egy kamasz fiúét: a rockzene, a foci, a csajok? Akárcsak a "Pop, csajok, satöbbi..."-ben, Hornby szellemesen, okosan, élvezetesen ír egyszerű és mégis különös emberek mindannyiunk számára ismerős érzelmeiről és élethelyzeteiről: barátságról, szerelemről, szenvedélyről, magányról, depresszióról. És a rockzene témája sem hiányzik a regényből: az események azon a napon vesznek különös fordulatot, amikor öngyilkosságot követ el Kurt Cobain, a Nirvana legendás énekese...

Nick Hornby's How To Be Good - part of the limited edition PENGUIN STREET ART series: timeless writing, enduring design. '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 its 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. 'Pins you in your armchair ad 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 Nick Hornby is the author of six internationally bestselling novels (High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down, Slam and Juliet, Naked) and four works of acclaimed non-fiction: Fever Pitch, 31 Songs, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree and Pray. The PENGUIN STREET ART series marries timeless writing with enduring design. Some of the world's leading street artists have designed new covers especially for ten classic contemporary books from Penguin: Hawksmoor by Peter Ackroyd / Armadillo by William Boyd / And The Ass Saw the Angel by Nick Cave / What a Carve Up by Jonathan Coe / Americana by Don DeLillo / Then We Came to the End by Joshua Ferris / The Reluctant Fundamentalist by Mohsin Hamid / The Believers by Zoe Heller /How to Be Good by Nick Hornby/ Lights out for the Territory by Iain Sinclair

This is the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. As a young boy, growing up in London and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby - author of "High Fidelity", "About a Boy", and "The Complete Polysyllabic Spree" - had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings he'd ever have: joy, humiliation, heartbreak, frustration, and hope. In this hilarious, moving and now-classic book, he vividly depicts his childhood life, his time as a teacher, and his first loves (after football), all through the prism of the game, as he insightfully and brilliantly explores obsession, and the way it can shape a life.

Ha férfi vagy, el kell olvasnod ezt a könyvet, aztán elolvastatnod a partnereddel is... - írta Nick Hornby regényéről egy angol kritikusa. És a tanácsát sokan meg is fogadták, hiszen a "Pop, csajok, satöbbi" az utóbbi évek angol irodalmának egyik legolvasottabb, legnépszerűbb könyve. Rob Fleming, a harmincöt éves popzenerajongó, poplemezgyűjtő, poplemezboltos történetében, boldog és boldogtalan szerelmeiben, szexuális hőstetteiben és leégéseiben, fájdalmas szakításaiban és olykor Woody Allent idéző szerencsétlenkedéseiben bizonnyal sokan ráismernek a saját életükre és jólesően kinevetik a főhőssel együtt saját magukat is. Nick Hornby ugyanis egyre terebélyesedő sikerét leginkább egészen utánozhatatlan humorának és öniróniájának köszönheti. Egy szó mint száz: ha férfi vagy (vagy nő, aki szeretné megismerni a mai férfiak mafla, gyötrődő lelkét), ha voltál már szerelmes (vagy leszel), ha valaha elhagyott a partnered (vagy te hagytad el őt), ha szereted a popzenét (bár akkor is, ha nem), ha még kezdő vagy, és szeretnéd tudni, milyen megpróbáltatások várnak rád a szexben és a szerelemben, vagy ha már túl vagy sok mindenen, ha olykor a szexet zűrös dolognak érzed, máskor meg az egyetlen örömnek az életben, ha olykor elfog a halálfélelem, ha sehogy sem sikerül felnőnöd, ha néha szörnyen elcseszed az életed... akkor el kell olvasnod ezt a könyvet. A regényből készült nagy sikerű filmet nálunk is vetítették.

Hornbyho literární mistrovství je zábavné, nenápadné, nevnucuje se. O to je však cennější. Ve svých knihách použil zdánlivě banální témata, aby vytvořil silné, citlivé, generačně platné a humorem jiskřící příběhy. Píše o dospívání malého, rozpolceného, znuděného kluka v mladého muže, o životě na dusném předměstí britské metropole, o sexu, o smrti. Řeší jizvy po prvních láskách. A všudepřítomná pop music o zlomených srdcích zanechává následky.

Hornbyho literární mistrovství je zábavné, nenápadné, nevnucuje se. O to je však cennější. Ve svých knihách použil zdánlivě banální témata, aby vytvořil silné, citlivé, generačně platné a humorem jiskřící příběhy. Píše o dospívání malého, rozpolceného, znuděného kluka v mladého muže, o životě na dusném předměstí britské metropole, o sexu, o smrti. Řeší jizvy po prvních láskách. A všudepřítomná pop music o zlomených srdcích zanechává následky.

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 just songs that he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod St

The script for major new film An Education, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on her way home from music practice one day. Bas ed on Observer journalist Lynn Barber's real-life experience as recounted in her book An Education, the film won the Audience Award for best film at the Sundance Film Festival and tremendous acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival too. It will be release d in the UK in October 2009 and promises to be the season's Slumdog Millionaire. Hornby's charming script is included in An Education: The Screenplay, along with stills from the film and a long introduction in which he wittily describes the process o f converting someone's very personal memoir into a hit film.

The contributors' list of this collection of freshly penned literary monologues, published to help The Treehouse Trust, a charity for autistic children, reads like a Who's Who of the richest, hippest authors in the UK--with a healthy smattering of ta lent from across the pond.The editor, Nick (High Fidelity) Hornby, as well as writing a moving and very heartfelt introduction--his own child is autistic--submits one of the best efforts: "Nipple Jesus", a slyly funny parable about a security man gua rding a chunk of dubious modern art. Other notable contributions come from Irvine (Trainspotting) Welsh with one of his identity-swap-stories, this time about a Scottish stud-muffin turned into an unwitting gay, and John (The Best A Man Can Get) O'Fa rrell, with a predictably funny, surprisingly edgy confessional from a mime artist slowly going to the dogs. Other big names included are Helen Fielding, Robert Harries, Zadie Smith, Roddy Doyle, et al.As with many of these projects, there is a sligh t feeling of incestuousness; Hornby actually admits that Harries is married to his sister, and that O'Farrell went to his school. But given the goodness of the cause, it's no real reason to quibble.

The script for major new film An Education, the story of the bizarre relationship between 1960s teenager Jenny (played by Carey Mulligan) and older man David (Peter Sarsgaard), after she accepts a lift on her way home from music practice one day. Bas ed on Observer journalist Lynn Barber's real-life experience as recounted in her book An Education, the film won the Audience Award for best film at the Sundance Film Festival and tremendous acclaim at the Berlin Film Festival too. It will be release d in the UK in October 2009 and promises to be the season's Slumdog Millionaire. Hornby's charming script is included in An Education: The Screenplay, along with stills from the film and a long introduction in which he wittily describes the process o f converting someone's very personal memoir into a hit film.

This is a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a ne w kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation. This is a famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, "Fever Pitch" has enjoyed enormous c ritical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

Nick Hornbys erfolgreichster Roman. Kinder sind so ungefähr das letzte, was sich Will Freeman, 36 Jahre alt und überzeugter Single, wünscht. Er lebt gut und faul von den Tantiemen eines Weihnachtslieds, das sein Vater 1938 komponiert hat. Seine Tage verbringt er mit Nichtstun, und an den Abenden bemüht er sich zur Zerstreuung um junge, alleinerziehende, gutaussehende Mütter.Marcus hat mit seinen zwölf Jahren ganz andere Probleme. Seine Eltern sind getrennt, und seine Mutter hat die beängstigende Neigung, ständig in Tränen auszubrechen. In der Schule ist Marcus nicht zuletzt wegen seiner Kleidung, seines Haarschnitts und seines Musikgeschmacks ein Außenseiter. Zum Glück bringt ihn das Schicksal mit Will zusammen. Und was das Schicksal einem schenkt, das lässt man so schnell nicht wieder los…Nick Hornbys erfolgreichster Roman wurde verfilmt mit Hugh Grant, Toni Colette und Rachel Weisz. Der Film wurde – wie das Buch – ein riesiger Erfolg.