Nick Hornby

""From the bestselling author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down comes a highly anticipated new novel. Set in 1960's London, Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingenue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Nick Hornby's latest does what he does best: endears us to a cast of characters...

Annie, her relationship with Duncan over, strikes up an E-mail correspondence with Duncan's idol Tucker Crowe, a reclusive singer/songwriter who has not been heard from in over twenty years, and possibilities abound when Tucker, about to release an acoustic version of his greatest album, is summoned to England--where Annie lives.

“Read what you enjoy, not what bores you," Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author's monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells us not just what to read, but how to read.
Whether tackling a dismayingly bulky biography of Dickens while his children destroy something in the next room,

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England Anfang der 60er: Die hübsche blonde Barbara nimmt die Wahl zur Miss Blackpool nicht an, sonst müsste sie womöglich noch ein Jahr in ihrem provinziellen Heimat-Kaff verbringen. Sie will ins Swinging London, ihr Traum: eine berühmte Komikerin werden. Was zunächst aussichtslos erscheint, wird Wirklichkeit, sie findet geniale Drehbuchschreiber und einen klugen Produzenten. Die Sitcom "Barbara (and Jim)" wird im Fernsehen ein Riesenerfolg...

An Irish immigrant lands in 1950s Brooklyn, where she quickly falls into a romance with a local. When her past catches up with her, however, she must choose between two countries and the lives that exist within.

Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.