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A Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A Long Way Down - Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller about strangers and secrets 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to en ...Show more
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
$20.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
About a Boyis Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller'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 par ...Show more
About a Boy by Nick Hornby
$28.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
A wise, hilarious novel from the beloved, award-winning author of Funny Girl, High Fidelityand A Long Way Down. Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women - women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will - migh ...Show more
Dickens and Prince: A Particular Kind of Genius by Nick Hornby
$25.00 AUD
Category: Essays
From the bestselling author of Just Like You, High Fidelity, and Fever Pitch, a short, warm, and entertaining book about art, creativity, and the unlikely similarities between Victorian novelist Charles Dickens and modern American rock star Prince Every so often, a pairing comes along that seems complet ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
$23.00 AUD
Category: Sport
Hornby's entertaining and poignant account of love and footballAs a young boy, growing up in the Home Counties and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the stronges ...Show more
Fever Pitch by Nick Hornby
$9.95 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
A brilliant memoir from the beloved, bestselling author of Funny Girl, High Fidelity and About A Boy. In America, it is soccer. But in Great Britain, it is the real football. No pads, no prayers, no prisoners. And that's before the players even take the field. Nick Hornby has been a football fan sin ...Show more
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
$29.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. So she leaves Blackpool and her family behind, takes herself off to London, and gets a job behind the cosmetics counter of a Kensington department store, wh ...Show more
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
$22.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
Make them laugh and they're yours forever...It's the swinging 60s and the nation is mesmerized by Sophie Straw, a former Blackpool beauty queen turned prime-time sitcom star. Sophie is a comic genius and a bombshell to boot - she might just have it all. Behind the scenes of her smash-hit show, Sophie is ...Show more
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's hardly surprising that his girlfriend decides that enough is enough.
High Fidelity by Nick Hornby
$23.00 AUD
Category: Fiction
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 th ...Show more
High Fidelity: Popular Penguins by Nick Hornby
$13.00 AUD
Category: Fiction | Series: Popular Penguins
From the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down, 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 miserabl ...Show more
Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby
$32.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
In 1986, legendary musician Tucker Crowe disappeared from the public eye and for 20 years, his rabid fans have speculated his whereabouts. Annie lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked, and has put fifteen years into a safe relationship with one such "Crowe-ologist", Duncan. A ...Show more