In Nick Hornbys How to Be Good, Katie Carr is certainly trying to be. Thats why she became a GP. Thats why she cares about Third World debt and homelessness, and struggles to raise her children with a conscience. Its also why she puts up with her husband David, the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. […]
The exhilarating New York Times bestseller from the author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and How to Be Good. In his eagerly awaited fourth novel, New York Times-bestselling author Nick Hornby mines the hearts and psyches of four lost souls who connect just when theyve reached the end of the line. Meet Martin, JJ, […]
Nick Hornbys second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And hes discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women – through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: hes got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps […]
It has been said often enough that baby boomers are a television generation, but the very funny novel High Fidelity reminds that in a way they are the record-album generation as well. This funny novel is obsessed with music; Hornbys narrator is an early-thirtysomething English guy who runs a London record store. He sells albums […]