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NICK HORNBY ON AUTHORSLIVE! 12 noon BST, Thursday 15th October Nick Hornby will be joining us LIVE this Thursday lunchtime to answer all YOUR burning questions on AuthorsLive. Everything you ever wanted to ask one of the best writers in the UK, Nick Hornby can be answered LIVE at the click of a mouse. Get chatting about his new novel, Juliet, Naked, his film, An Education, out later this month, and there may be a bit of football in there too. Or maybe you want to know where Nick gets his ideas from? Does he use a pen or a computer? Or where does he write? All these and hopefully more interesting questions too! Store your questions up, and make a date with Nick Hornby on AuthorsLive, 12 noon BST on Thursday 15th October and see Nick answer your questions, LIVE.  |
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Juliet, Naked Nick’s magnificent new novel about rock stars, relationships and last chances will be available from 3rd September. Read all about Juliet, Naked here. |
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An Education The film An Education, based on Lynn Barber’s memoir and scripted by Nick Hornby, is due for release in October. Nick’s brilliant script for An Education will be available from 15th October and will include stills from the film and a long introduction in which he describes the process of converting someone's very personal memoir into a hit film. |
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The United States of McSweeney’s Nick Hornby and McSweeney’s Managing Editor Eli Horowitz have hand-picked 18 gems from the McSweeney’s archive to mark the 10 year anniversary of the McSweeney’s Quarterly Concern. |
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Nick's Waterstone's Writer's Table Nick is the third author to host The Writer's Table at Waterstone's, a major promotion that allows its curator to reveal some of the books and authors that have shaped and influenced their writing, as well as a few personal favourites. Read all about his choices and why he chose them on his blog. |
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Nick will be in Southampton to support the Reading Slam reading extracts from his novel Slam and taking questions from the audience. Thursday 6th November at 7.30pm Turner Sims University of Southampton Tickets £6 or £3 concessionary www.turnersims.co.uk Tel: 023 8059 5151 Southampton libraries and Penguin Books invite you to take part in a 'reading slam' an opportunity for the people of Southampton to read and talk about the same book. 600 free copies of Slam by Nick Hornby will be available at locations across the city. » For more information click here |
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| On Friday 25th July, Nick Hornby will be appearing at The Roundhouse in Camden as part of the first ever Spinebreakers Live event. Spinebreakers.co.uk is Penguin's teen online book community run by teens for teens. The day is aimed at young people aged 13 to 18 and as well as getting the chance to meet Nick and hear him read from SLAM, they will also have the opportunity to create a variety of multi-media content around their responses to books with music, film and creative writing workshops from expert mentors. Practical tips on creative writing from experienced journalist and editor, Emma Warren, the use of professional camera equipment and the opportunity to make a mini-film with film director Anton Saunders and soundtrack production with DJ and poet, Charlie Dark. Tickets £3.00 plus £2.00 booking fee. Includes lunch and goody bag. Go to www.spinebreakers.co.uk or www.roundhouse.org.uk for more information and to book tickets. |
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WIN £5,000 Create a soundtrack for SLAM (new in paperback) and you could pocket £5,000! Penguin have teamed up with Virgin Radio's The Christian O'Connell Breakfast Show to offer Nick Hornby fans the chance to create a soundtrack to Nick's latest book, SLAM. All you have to do is choose 5 songs that you think best sum up the book. Nick will be launching the comp live on the show on 8 April and choosing the winner live on-air on 11 April. » Click here to read more. |
Nick Hornby was at London's Apple Store on Thursday 10th April for the UK's first iTunes Meet the Author event.
If you have iTunes installed, you can listen to the podcast of Nick's Meet the Author event at the Apple Store and hear him discuss his latest book SLAM, about Sam, a skateboarding obsessed 16 year-old who gets his girlfriend pregnant...
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BREAKING NEWS: There's NO breaking news! This used to be the 'breaking news' section of the website, but we have all reluctantly come to the conclusion that there is no breaking news - not now, and not ever. Things do happen in a writer's life every now and again, I suppose. Books get published, scripts get turned into movies, and so on. But nothing happens with any great sense of urgency. The only thing that happens on a daily/weekly/monthly basis, if we're lucky, is that people buy our books. I have therefore asked Penguin to link this site to every bookshop cash register in Britain, and if someone buys, say, a copy of SLAM from the WH Smith in Stansted Airport, you'll be the first to know about it: there'll be a rolling news-style tickertape on the bottom of your screen, and it will become as addictive as email, or solitaire. Until we have the technology for that, however, we are going to stop pretending that it's all insanely busy here. And of course in the unlikely event that anything does happen, then I'll be writing about it in my blog... |
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EXCLUSIVE: A LONG WAY DOWN 'The finest novel he's written to date. This book, I'm sure, will win him what he's long deserved - not just popular success, but real recognition from his literary peers.' |
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Visit the Penguin Podcast to hear a special edition live event with Nick Hornby and Marah. Nick talks about the music that moves him illustrated with a fantastic live performance from the top Philadelphia Rock'n'Rollers. The podcast was released in two episodes on 12th and 19th April 2006.
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Will there be a sequel to Fever Pitch? What does Nick think about the films? How autobiographical are the novels? Nick answers these questions and more in our Frequently Asked Questions special feature.
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Former student (and debut Penguin author) Christopher Coake interviews Nick on the publication of A Long Way Down.
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Watch this space closely. Nick will be doing several events and speaking engagements in the Autumn 2007. These will be posted as soon as the schedule is finalised.
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