New Releases by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby conecta la vida y obra de dos genios a los que adora. ¿Qué diantre tienen que ver Charles Dickens y Prince, un escritor británico del siglo XIX y un músico estadounidense del XX? De entrada, que Nick Hornby siente pasión por ambos. Pero hay más. Coincidencias —tal vez curiosas, acaso significativas— que los conectan. Por ejemplo: antes de cumplir los treinta ambos tenían ya una sólida carrera, habían dado a luz unas cuantas obras maestras y eran muy influyentes. Por ejemplo: ambos vivieron una infancia marcada por la pobreza, mostraron un decidido sentido del negocio y en algún momento se sintieron estafados. Por ejemplo: ambos murieron a los cincuenta y ocho años. Por ejemplo: ambos estaban obsesionados con el trabajo y eran hiperproductivos... Nacidos en dos continentes distintos con más de un siglo de diferencia —Dickens en Portsmouth en 1812, Prince en Mineápolis en 1958—, estos dos genios comparten más puntos de conexión de lo que pueda parecer a simple vista. Hay en sus vidas y sus carreras paralelismos que le permiten al autor trazar un sugestivo, apasionante doble retrato. Con el dinamismo y el entusiasmo habituales en Nick Hornby, este es un ensayo a un tiempo ameno y enjundioso, divertido y profundo, lúdico y serio. Y sobre todo: una lectura apasionante.

”[A] charming, funny, touching, and relevant comedy.” —The Boston Globe “A provocative yet sweet romantic comedy.” —People, Best of Fall 2020 From the beloved author of Dickens and Prince, About A Boy, and High Fidelity, this warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she’d been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she’s a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn’t exactly looking for love—she’s more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It’s not a match anyone one could have predicted. He’s of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through. Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person—someone you didn’t see coming.

A heartbreaking, funny, and honest look inside of a marriage falling apart and the lengths a couple would go to in order to fix it from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, About a Boy and High Fidelity Now an Emmy award winning SundanceTV series starring Rosamund Pike and Chris O''Dowd Tom and Louise meet in a pub before their couple''s therapy appointment. Married for years, they thought they had a stable home life--until a recent incident pushed them to the brink. Going to therapy seemed like the perfect solution. But over drinks before their appointment, they begin to wonder: what if marriage is like a computer? What if you take it apart to see what''s in there, but then you''re left with a million pieces? Unfolding in the minutes before their weekly therapy sessions, the ten-chapter conversation that ensues is witty and moving, forcing them to look at their marriage--and, for the first time in a long time, at each other.

En Rob Fleming té una botiga de discos antics tronada però cool on només ven la música que li agrada a ell. I només vinils, és clar, encara que el negoci, destinat a un públic de col·leccionistes de frivolitats molt seriosos, està sempre a punt de fer fallida. I ara, a més, la Laura l’ha deixat. És perquè en Rob s’entossudeix a perpetuar l’adolescència fins a la decrepitud? O bé –això creu ell– perquè la seva col·lecció de discos i la de la Laura són incompatibles? En Rob es refugia en la companyia d’en Barry i en Dick, els seus inefables còmplices a la botiga, i junts fan innombrables i molt masculines llistes dels top del pop: les cinc millors pel·lícules, en què sempre hi ha Reservoir Dogs, els cinc millors capítols de Cheers i les cinc millors cançons d’Elvis Costello... I també comença a sortir amb la Marie, una cantant americana. Sembla que finalment farà realitat un dels seus somnis, tenir una nòvia amb un contracte discogràfic, però llavors reapareix la Laura. I en Rob aviat començarà a fer-se preguntes de difícil resposta sobre la família, la monogàmia, l’amor, el desamor i la maduresa. Pot ser que a la fi descobreixi que també hi ha vida, i música, després de l’adolescència?

A brilliant novel about a woman determined to make a name for herself as a sitcom star in 1960''s London from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, High Fidelity and About a Boy Funny Girl is a lively account of the adventures of the intrepid young Sophie Straw as she navigates her transformation from provincial ingénue to television starlet amid a constellation of delightful characters. Insightful and humorous, Funny Girl does what Nick Hornby does best: endears us to a cast of characters who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process.

Dans les Swinging Sixties la nation tout entiere est sous le charme de Sophie Straw, la nouvelle star de la comedie a succes de la BBC. Ca tombe bien, cette ancienne Miss Blackpool n a qu une ambition dans la vie: faire rire les gens. En studio comme a l ecran, l equipe du feuilleton vit de grands moments. Les scenaristes, pour qui le genre comique est une religion, cachent tous deux un secret. Pur produit d Oxbridge, le producteur est devoue corps et ame a l equipe en general et a Sophie en particulier. Quant a Clive, le premier role masculin, il a la tenace intuition que ce n est qu une parenthese dans sa carriere Lorsque la fi ction rejoint la realite de trop pres et que le scenario epouse les peripeties de la vie, chacun doit faire un choix. Continuer ou changer de chaine ? Une defense et illustration de la pop culture et du ivertissement, pleine de fous rires et de tendresse.Traduit de l anglais par Christine Barbaste- Hornby est une des voix les plus droles et les plus subtiles de la fiction contemporaine. -Chicago Tribune- Hornby est un ecrivain qui ose tout, a la fois l humour, l intelligence et la generosite. -The New York Times Book Review- Son roman le plus ambitieux. -The Times- Un roman poignant et plein d esprit sur la comedie, les classes, les mutations sociales sans doute son meilleur. -The Irish Times- Une defense sincere et une illustration reussie de ce que le divertissement populaire peut accomplir. -The Daily Telegraph- Une lettre d amour a la revolution culturelle de la TV des annees 1960 et a quelques-uns des auteurs preferes deHornby Funny Girl est son roman le plus lumineux. - Metro- Sujet oblige, ce roman est plein de fous rires mais aussi plus profond qu il n y parait. - The New York Times- Funny Girl ricoche allegrement, tel un caillou sur l eau. Impossible a lacher. - Newsweek"

La quarantaine passée, fatiguée par son métier harassant de médecin et un mariage qui a perdu toute saveur, Kate décide de demander le divorce. Dans l''espoir de la retenir, David, son mari, va alors changer radicalement : renouant avec ses idéaux de jeunesse, l''homme irascible devient un modèle de bonté, prêchant la redistribution des richesses et recueillant des SDF. Déstabilisée par ce changement soudain et ces initiatives aussi généreuses que maladroites, Kate se retrouve face à une situation inédite et explosive... À partir de quand est-on quelqu''un de bon et jusqu''où peut-on aller pour le rester ? Dans cette comédie aux mille facettes, Nick Hornby tacle le politiquement correct et interroge ce qui fait la solidité d''un couple. " Nick Hornby a un sens de la formule unique et le don de rendre comique des situations qui ne le sont pas du tout. " Olivia de Lamberterie, Elle Traduit de l''anglais par Isabelle Chapman "Domaine étranger" créé par Jean-Claude Zylberstein

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 who are funny if flawed, and forces us to examine ourselves in the process.

“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, or getting sucked into a serious assessment of Celine Dion during an intensely fought soccer match featuring his beloved Arsenal, or devouring an entire series of children’s books while on vacation, Hornby’s reviews are rich, witty, and occasionally madcap. These essays capture the joy and ire, the despair and exhilaration of the book-lover’s life, and will appeal equally to both monocle-wearing salonnieres and people, like him, who spend a lot of time thinking about Miley Cyrus’s next role.

Eine exklusive Nick Hornby Erzählung aus dem Band "Small Country": Es ist schlimm genug, wenn eine Mutter erfahren muss, dass ihr Sohn ein Pornostar ist. Noch schlimmer ist es jedoch, wenn diese Nachricht ausgerechnet von der neugierigen Nachbarin überbracht wird. Als Lynn ihren Sohn Mark als Hauptdarsteller in einem Pornofilm betrachtet, muss sie sich schwierigen Fragen stellen. Woher stammen seine besonderen Qualitäten? Und wie soll sie das ihrem Mann beibringen? Es gibt Dinge, die wollen Eltern von ihren Kindern gar nicht wissen...

Speaking with the Angel is a collection of short stories, edited by Nick Hornby Hear the Prime Minister explain to the House why he did a runner from Greenford Park service station and hitched a lift with a fifteen-year-old girl, as imagined by Robert Harris. Listen to someone who has a small hostile creature in his room, as told by Roddy Doyle. Twelve voices, twelve completely new stories, narrated by twelve different characters. And all written by twelve of the most exciting and popular writers around: Robert Harris, Melissa Bank, Giles Smith, Patrick Marber, Colin Frith, Zadie Smith, Dave Eggers, Helen Fielding, Roddy Doyle, Irvine Welsh, John O''Farrell and Nick Hornby himself. This sparkling collection has been put together by bestselling novelist Nick Hornby, who also contributes an Introduction about TreeHouse, an organisation that offers a unique and pioneering approach to the education of children with autism. £1 will go to TreeHouse with every copy sold of Speaking with the Angel.

From the New York Times bestselling author—the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie. Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can’t wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening—or her undoing. This edition of Hornby’s adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must-have for fans of Hornby’s novels, featuring his signature pitch-perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing. Watch a Video

In these two stories from bestselling author Nick Hornby revelations are at hand. In "Not a Star", Lynn has always thought her son, Mark, was a little, well, unremarkable. Until the day a neighbor drops off a porn video at her house, with a note telling her to watch it. Turns out, Mark is rather remarkable in one specific area of his life (and anatomy). Lynn and her husband, Dave, don’t quite know what to think. The revelation of their son’s talent ripples through Lynn’s life as she alternately encounters humor, horror, and unexpected emotional reactions. What do you do in the face of impending doom? In "Otherwise, Pandemonium," you lose your virginity with the hottest girl in the Little Berkeley Big Band… Here, the world is a different place; the future is uncertain; the choices one makes are the only thing standing between a semblance of order or utter chaos. And the TV’s been acting funny. This is a story that makes you think and feel, and reminds us of the fleeting nature of time.

Rockstar Tucker Crowe, Jahrgang 1953, der in den 80er-Jahren Triumphe feierte, lebt heute völlig zurückgezogen in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt und kann kaum glauben, was er im Internet alles über sich lesen muss. Doch Annies Kritik seines neuen Albums lässt ihn aufhorchen, er nimmt Kontakt mit Annie auf...

According to her own moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She''s a doctor, and doctors are decent people, and her husband David is the "Angriest Man" in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, Katie''s sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some questions.

Éste es el relato autobiográfico de la tumultuosa relación del autor con el fútbol y con su equipo, el Arsenal londinense. Con un entusiasmo contagioso y su característica ironía, Hornby nos cuenta lo que ocurre cuando uno deja que el fútbol dé contenido a unos cuantos huecos que deberían haber estado ocupados por otras cuestiones. Este adicto al fútbol rechaza invitaciones a bodas porque ese día el Arsenal juega en casa, o asocia su primera gran ruptura amorosa a la pérdida de un jugador emblemático. Hornby se interroga aquí sobre la esencia de esta obsesión y describe con humor en qué consiste verdaderamente ser hincha de un equipo. Fiebre en las gradas es también una lúcida radiografía de los entresijos deportivos y sociales de este deporte y termina convirtiéndose en una sentida declaración de devoción y lealtad a un deporte, a un club y, sobre todo, a la comunidad de sufridos seguidores que conforman su verdadera esencia. «Te interese o no el fútbol, se te saltarán las lágrimas de tanto reír y querrás leer fragmentos en voz alta a completos desconocidos» (Nicholas Lezard, GQ); «Divertido, inteligente y sincero» (Roddy Doyle).

“One New Year’s Eve, four people with very different reasons but a common purpose find their way to the top of a fifteen-story building in London. None of them has calculated that, on a date humans favor for acts of significance, in a place known as a local suicide-jumpers’ favorite, they might encounter company. A Long Way Down is the story of what happens next, and of what doesn’t.” —The New York Times Book Review A wise, affecting novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Dickens and Prince, Funny Girl and High Fidelity Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when they’ve reached the end of the line. In four distinct and riveting first-person voices, Hornby tells a story of four individuals confronting the limits of choice, circumstance, and their own mortality. This is a tale of connections made and missed, punishing regrets, and the grace of second chances.

*WINNER OF THE WILLIAM HILL SPORTS BOOK OF THE YEAR* Fever Pitch is Nick Hornby''s million-copy-selling, award-winnning football classic ''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

A hilarious and true account of one man''s struggle with the monthly tide of the books he''s bought and the books he''s been meaning to read.

" Un roman hilarant, voilà l''événement ! [...] II y a de quoi faire dans cette histoire destinée aux individus coincés et mal coincés entre la trentaine et tout ce qui suit. Rob, bientôt trente-six ans, est mal en point : "Qu''ai-je fait de ma vie ?" se demande ce sempiternel adolescent qui craint de vieillir (même bien), au lendemain d''une rupture, en contemplant les bacs de son magasin de disques pop paumé dans une ruelle de Londres. [...] Pour notre plus grand plaisir, Rob, qui se demande in fine s''il ne serait pas un nul, décide d''entamer la falaise. II récapitule ses amours, depuis le premier, à douze ans, qui dura trois fois deux heures, jusqu''au dernier, une nuit correcte avec une chanteuse américaine, et dresse un inventaire hilarant de ses états d''âme. [...] Tous ceux qui considèrent comme vertige nécessaire le fait de savoir à un moment donné faire durer une relation monogame, se délecteront à la lecture de ce roman post-mélancolique qui célèbre les vertus du rire. " Catherine Argand, Lire.

“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 A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like You, Funny Girl and About a Boy. Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin… Songbook is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives—all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape.

Here, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. He begins with Teenage Fanclub''s Your Love is the Place that I Come From and ends with Patti Smith''s Pissing in a River, encompassing varied singers along the way, such as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, and songs as different as Thunder Road and Puff the Magic Dragon (reggae style). He discusses, among other things, guitar solos, singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop.

A wise and hilarious novel morality and what it means to be a "goof person" from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like you, Funny Girl and High Fidelity. 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 for better or worse… Katie Carr is a good person…sort of. For years her husband’s been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed. But now David’s changed. He’s become a good person, too—really good. He’s found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. Katie isn’t sure if this is deeply felt conversion, a brain tumor—or David’s most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she’s finding it more and more difficult to live with David—and with herself.

Katie, la quarantaine, est quelqu''un de Bien : elle est médecin, elle élève ses deux enfants, elle est fidèle à David, son mari depuis quinze ans jusqu''au moment où elle se retrouve au lit avec un certain Stephen, et songe alors à demander le divorce. Mais David, personnage grincheux, désagréable, auteur d''un feuilleton hebdomadaire où il se clame l''" homme le plus en colère " de leur petite ville, tombe soudainement sous l''influence du gourou D.J. GoodNews - et devient aussitôt quelqu''un de Bon. Transformé en bénévole hyperactif, il mène des actions parfois hilarantes, toujours désastreuses. Déstabilisée par ces excès de bonté, Katie ne sait plus où elle en est : son mariage, sa vie professionnelle, tout son avenir est remis en question... Nick Hornby, avec son talent remarquable pour trouver le comique dans la détresse des quadras contemporains, brosse ici un portrait à la fois drôle et perspicace d''un mariage moderne et de la difficulté d''être... Bon.

"I''ve always loved Nick Hornby, and the way he writes characters and the way he thinks. It''s funny and heartbreaking all at the same time."—Zoë Kravitz From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, A Long Way Down and Dickens and Prince, a wise and hilarious novel about love, heartbreak, and rock and roll. Rob is a pop music junkie who runs his own semi-failing record store. His girlfriend, Laura, has just left him for the guy upstairs, and Rob is both miserable and relieved. After all, could he have spent his life with someone who has a bad record collection? Rob seeks refuge in the company of the offbeat clerks at his store, who endlessly review their top five films; top five Elvis Costello songs; top five episodes of Cheers. Rob tries dating a singer, but maybe it’s just that he’s always wanted to sleep with someone who has a record contract. Then he sees Laura again. And Rob begins to think that life with kids, marriage, barbecues, and soft rock CDs might not be so bad.

Roman personnel. Roman psychologique.

Ejeren af pladeforretningen Championship Vinyl i Holloway, London, den 35-årige Robert, er blevet droppet af sin kæreste og prøver nu at finde sig selv i galgenhumoristisk desperation og maskulin afmagt

Pour un petit Londonien de douze ans, que sa mère, baba cool divorcée et dépressive, affuble de grosses lunettes et de mocassins ringards, et à qui elle inculque des théories aussi psychorigides qu''improbables à propos de l''existence, la vie n''est pas facile. Pour un célibataire londonien de trente-six ans, riche, oisif, mais qui a de plus en plus de mal à dénicher des compagnes bien roulées, indulgentes et disponibles, la vie n''est pas facile non plus. Quand le gamin et le célibataire se rencontrent dans un club pour femmes seules où le célibataire s''est indûment introduit, les choses deviennent de plus en plus compliquées. Nick Hornby en dit beaucoup, en riant, sur la triste condition des mâles célibataires de tous âges, en notre triste fin de siècle. Christophe Mercier " Un mets rassasiant et tout à fait gouteux Ce livre est un fameux potage, et si vous avez aimé les deux précédents vous en reprendrez volontiers. " (The Guardian.) " L''acuité du regard de Hornby et son sens inné de la comédie loufoque rendent notre voyage drôle, divertissant et parfois émouvant. " (New York Times.) " Au contraire de son compatriote Martin Amis, qui est souvent hilarant mais essentiellement sulfureux, Hornby est un écrivain qui ose être tout à la fois spirituel, intelligent et d''une grande structure émotionnelle " (New York Times Book Review.) " Un regard étonnamment lucide et élégamment transfiguré sur la société anglaise, sans égal parmi les écrivains de la dernière génération. " (L''Evénement du jeudi.) " Il est rare qu''un livre aussi hilarant soit également si percutant sur le sexe, la virilité, la mémoire et la musique. " (The New Yorker).