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Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby (born 17 April 1957 in Redhill, Surrey, England) is an English novelist and essayist. He was brought up in Maidenhead and was educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge. He is best known for the novels High Fidelity, About a Boy and for the football memoir Fever Pitch. His work frequently touches upon music, sports, and the both aimless and obsessive natures of his protagonists.
Hornby's first published book, 1992s Fever Pitch, is an autobiographical story detailing his fanatical support for the Arsenal Football Club. As a result, Hornby received the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award. In 1997 the memoir was adapted for film in the UK and in 2005 an American remake was released, following Jimmy Fallon's obsession with the Boston Red Sox. With the book's success, Hornby began to publish articles in the Sunday Times, Time Out and the Times Literary Supplement, in addition to his music reviews for the New Yorker. High Fidelity his second book and first novel was published in 1995. The novel, about a neurotic record collector and his failed relationships, was adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, and a Broadway musical in 2006.
His third novel, About a Boy, published in 1998, is about two "boys" -- Marcus, an awkward yet endearing adolescent from a single parent family, and the free floating, mid-30s Will Freeman who overcomes his own immaturity and self-centeredness through his growing relationship with Marcus. Hugh Grant and Nicholas Hoult starred in the 2002 movie version. In 1999 Hornby received the E. M. Forster Award of the American Academy of Arts and Letters.
The novel How to Be Good was published in 2001. The female protagonist in the novel explores contemporary morals, marriage and parenthood. It won the WH Smith Award for Fiction in 2002. A part of the money he earned with his next book Speaking with the Angel in 2002 was donated to TreeHouse, a charity for children with autism, the disorder that affects Hornby's own son. He was editor of the book, which contained twelve short stories written by his friends. He also contributed to the collection with the story "NippleJesus." In 2003 Hornby wrote a collection of essays on selected popular songs and the emotional resonance they carry, called 31 Songs (known in the US as Songbook). Also in 2003, Hornby was awarded the London Award 2003, an award that was selected by fellow writers.
Hornby has also written essays on various aspects of popular culture, and in particular he has become known for his writing on pop music and mix tape enthusiasts. He also began writing a book review column, "Stuff I've Been Reading," for the monthly magazine The Believer that ran through September 2008; all of these articles are collected between The Polysyllabic Spree (2004), Housekeeping vs. The Dirt (2006), and Shakespeare Wrote for Money (2008).
Hornby's novel A Long Way Down was published in 2005. It was on the shortlist for the Whitbread Novel Award. Hornby has also edited two sports-related anthologies: My Favourite Year and The Picador Book of Sports Writing.
Hornby's newest book, entitled Slam, was released on October 16, 2007, is his first novel for young adults and was recognized by the Young Adult Library Services Association as a 2008 Best Book for Young Adults. The protagonist of Slam is a 15-year-old skateboarder named Sam whose life changes drastically when his girlfriend gets pregnant.
Available Books by Nick Hornby
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Juliet, Naked
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670915668
RRP: $32.95
QBD: $4.99
Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe (in Duncan's case, an obsession as well as an academic career) is not enough to hold them together any more. When Annie hates Tucker's 'new release', a terrible demo of his most famous album, it's the last straw - Duncan cheats o...
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Speaking With the Angels
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241957240
RRP: $24.95
A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's Talking Heads. And Colin Firth makes his début as a fiction writer. The result is a book of completely original stories...
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Penguin Ink: High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241954584
RRP: $19.95
Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups? Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it - even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered....
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About a Boy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950227
RRP: $24.95
Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women - through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a littl...
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31 Songs
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241951095
RRP: $22.95
'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved . . . Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.'
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 ...
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Fever Pitch
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950197
RRP: $24.95
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 new kind of sports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.
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How To Be Good
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780241950173
RRP: $24.95
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very h...
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High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140293463
RRP: $24.95
The narrator confesses his fears and foibles with seductive, self-deprecating wit.
"Know me for my weaknesses," he pleads, "then save me from them."
This is an hilarious book about sex and manliness, memory and music. Many men - and, certainly, all addictive personalities - will find in this book shadows of themselves. It is a very funny and concise explanation of why men are as...
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Juliet, Naked
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141020648
RRP: $24.95
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&...
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Popular Penguins: Fever Pitch
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141045498
RRP: $9.95
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. For Nick Hornby's devotion to the game has provided one of the few constants in a life where the meaningful things like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love...
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Slam
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141321400
RRP: $24.95
'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up.'
Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of her rubbish boyfriend, he's thinking about college and he's met someone. ...
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Popular Penguins: High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141037356
RRP: $9.95
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Fever Pitch
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140293449
RRP: $24.95
'A spanking 7-0 away win of a football book - inventive, honest, funny, heroic, charming' Jim White, Independent'Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-loud-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby's obsession and the state of the game. Fever Pitch is not only the best football ...
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A Long Way Down
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140287028
RRP: $24.95
New Year's Eve at North London's most popular suicide spot. And four strangers are about to discover that doing away with yourself isn't quite the private act they'd each expected.
Perma-tanned Martin Sharp's a disgraced breakfast TV presenter who had it all - the family, the pad, the great career - and wasted it away. Killing himself is Martin's logical response to an un...
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Juliet, Naked
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594484773
RRP: $19.95
Ending her relationship with a man who turns out to be in love with a reclusive singer, Annie initiates an e-mail friendship with the musician that reveals their mutual loneliness, his concerns about his young son and his plans to release an acoustic version of his most successful album. By the E. M. Forster-winning author of About a Boy. Reprint. 150,000 first printing....
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An Education
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594484537
RRP: $18.95
The author's shooting script for the forthcoming movie of the same name tells the story of Jenny, a 16-year-old who is tired of teen life until she meets David, a much older suitor who induces her to the glittering world of urban nightlife, a new "education" that could prove to be her awakening--or her undoing--in an edition that includes movie stills. Original. Movie tie-in....
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Slam
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594484711
RRP: $19.95
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically....
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Slam
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594483455
RRP: $18.95
At the age of sixteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend Alicia gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically, so Sam turns to Hawk's autobiography for answers. Reprint....
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A Long Way Down
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594481932
RRP: $18.95
Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a television talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share the stories about their circumstances and decisions. By the author of How to Be Good. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 500,000 first printing....
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Songbook
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573223560
RRP: $19.95
The best-selling author of High Fidelity and About a Boy celebrates thirty-one of his favorite songs in a collection of intimate and witty essays about such musical renditions as Bruce Springsteen's "Thunder Road," "Heartbreaker" by Led Zeppelin, "Rain" by the Beatles, and Van Morrison's "Caravan." Original....
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About a Boy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573229579
RRP: $19.95
Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman who is also a single mother...
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High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573228213
RRP: $19.95
Follows the love affairs and belated growing up of a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner...
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Fever Pitch
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573226882
RRP: $20.95
An autobiographical memoir by a humorous British author and obsessed soccer fan captures the intensity of a sports fan who measures his life in seasons rather than years...
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High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573225519
RRP: $19.95
Follows the love affairs and belated growing up of a "Generation X" pop music fanatic and record store owner...
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About a Boy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781405884501
RRP: $29.95
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About a Boy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573227339
RRP: $19.95
Will trades his lack of enthusiasm toward children for a date with a truly beautiful woman who is also a single mother...
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Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932416596
RRP: $18.95
Offers reviews on a wide range of American works, providing insights into the authors' styles and techniques and making recommendations for readers....
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How to Be Good
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573229326
RRP: $19.95
Katie, a liberal, urban mother and doctor from North London, finds her life turned upside-down when her husband, David, undergoes an outrageous spiritual transformation....
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Juliet, Naked
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781410423993
RRP: $59.95
Ending her relationship with a man who turns out to be in love with a reclusive singer, Annie initiates an e-mail friendship with the musician that reveals their mutual loneliness, his concerns about his young son, and his plans to release an acoustic version of his most successful album. (General fiction). By the E. M. Forster-winning author of About a Boy....
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Lonely Avenue
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780739077047
RRP: $25.95
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Not a Star
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781934848227
RRP: $15.95
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Shakespeare Wrote for Money
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781934781296
RRP: $18.95
Offers reviews on a wide range of literary works, providing insights into the authors' styles and techniques and making recommendations for readers....
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Speaking With the Angel
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781573228589
RRP: $19.95
Presents a collection of first-person narratives by Melissa Bank, Roddy Doyle, Helen Fielding, Colin Firth, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, and Nick Hornby....
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The Polysyllabic Spree
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781932416244
RRP: $18.95
The author of High Fidelity and About a Boy shares samples from his "Stuff I've Been Reading" columns in The Believer, focusing on various books he has found interesting, in a volume that includes selected passages from the novels, poetry, biographies, and comics discussed....
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31 Songs
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141013404
"I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved . . . Song are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else. I don't listen to classical music or jazz very often, and when people ask me what music I like, I find it very difficult to reply, because they usually want names of people, and I can only give them song titles."
Nick Hornby write...
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31 Songs
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670914265
"I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved . . . Song are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else. I don't listen to classical music or jazz very often, and when people ask me what music I like, I find it very difficult to reply, because they usually want names of people, and I can only give them song titles."
Nick Hornby write...
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A Long Way Down
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670915637
Narrated in turns by a dowdy, middle-aged woman, a half-crazed adolescent, a disgraced breakfast TV presenter and an American rock star cum pizza delivery boy, 'A Long Way Down' is the story of the Toppers House Four, aka Maureen, Jess, Martin and JJ. 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....
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A Long Way Down
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9781573223027
Meeting on New Year's Eve on the roof of Topper's House, a London destination infamous as a last stop for suicidal people, a television talk-show host, a musician, a teenage girl, and a mother share the stories about their circumstances and decisions. By the author of How to Be Good. 175,000 first pirnting....
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About A Boy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140293456
Marcus is twelve. Will is thirty-six. Why can't they both act their age?
Nick Hornby explores the connections people make when the so-called ideal family model does not apply. Hornby keeps his eye on the subject while revealing much more - always cutting through received rubbish with a singular sense of purpose. And in the process he connects with a huge number of people who find his vie...
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About A Boy
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780753808627
Marcus is twelve. Will is thirty-six. Why can't they both act their age?
Nick Hornby explores the connections people make when the so-called ideal family model does not apply. Hornby keeps his eye on the subject while revealing much more - always cutting through received rubbish with a singular sense of purpose. And in the process he connects with a huge number of people who find his vie...
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About A Boy - Film Tie-In
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141007335
Will is thirty-six and acts like a teenager. He reads the right magazines, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear. He's also discovered a great way to score with women - at single parents' groups, full of available mothers, all waiting for Mr Nice.
That's where he meets Marcus, the oldest twelve-year-old in the world. Marcus is a bit strange: he listens to Mozart...
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High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575400184
The narrator confesses his fears and foibles with seductive, self-deprecating wit.
"Know me for my weaknesses," he pleads, "then save me from them."
This is an hilarious book about sex and manliness, memory and music. Many men - and, certainly, all addictive personalities - will find in this book shadows of themselves. It is a very funny and concise explanation of why men are ...
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High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575403284
The narrator confesses his fears and foibles with seductive, self-deprecating wit.
"Know me for my weaknesses," he pleads, "then save me from them."
This is an hilarious book about sex and manliness, memory and music. Many men - and, certainly, all addictive personalities - will find in this book shadows of themselves. It is a very funny and concise explanation of why men are ...
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High Fidelity
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9781594481789
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High Fidelity - Film Tie-In
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575402898
Is it possible to share your life with someone whose record collection is incompatible with your own? Can people have terrible taste and still be worth knowing? Do songs about broken hearts and misery and loneliness mess up your life if consumed in excess?
For Rob Fleming, thirty-five years old, a pop addict and owner of a failing record shop, these are the sort of questions that need an answer...
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How To Be Good
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780140287011
Katie Carr is a good person; she's a doctor, after all. Plus she puts up with "the Angriest Man in Holloway", her husband David. But when David suddenly gets Good - real give-their-money-away, take-in-the-homeless good - her reserves of kindness (not to mention patience) run dry.
Who wants to be good and miserable? It's not as if she feels any better about herself. In fact, as Dav...
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How To Be Good
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670888238
According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. ...
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How To Be Good
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780670888870
'I'm a good person, a doctor, and I'm lying in a hotel bed with a man I don't really know very well called Stephen, and I've just asked my husband for a divorce.' According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man...
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Nick Hornby Omnibus
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780575402553
'Fever Pitch', 'High Fidelity' and 'About a Boy' in one volume.
'Fever Pitch'
Whether you are interested in football or not, this is a very funny, but also high perceptive and honest story about Hornby's obsession and the state of the game.
'High Fidelity'
This is an hilarious book about sex and manliness, memory and music. Many men - and, certainly, ...
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Slam
Binding: Paperback
ISBN: 9780141382982
Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk. It doesn't matter if you don't know who he is, just trust me.
Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to talk to. So I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back. Because just when it seemed like everything had come together for me, I had to go and screw it all ...
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Slam
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780399250484
At the age of fifteen, Sam Jones's girlfriend gets pregnant and Sam's life of skateboarding and daydreaming about Tony Hawk changes drastically....
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The Complete Polysyllabic Spree
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780670916665
'So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading - about the way that, when reading is going well, one books leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next ...
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Triple Platinum
Binding: Hardcover
ISBN: 9780575068056
Here in one volume are three of the most popular and critically acclaimed bestsellers of the past decade.
'Fever Pitch' - the definitive statement on the obsessive nature of football fandom. Winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award.
'High Fidelity' - hilariously and movingly explains men to women - and to themselves.
'About A Boy' - explores the connecti...
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