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Fever Pitch Not only is Fever Pitch 20 years old, but it will become a Penguin Modern Classic in August 2012! |
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Nick Hornby to receive Sports writing award The British Sports Book Awards is to celebrate its 10th anniversary with three new awards, including a prize for Outstanding Contribution to Sports Writing,that will go to Nick Hornby in its inaugural year. Read more. |
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LONELY AVENUE Ben Folds and Nick Hornby proudly present Lonely Avenue, available on September 28th 2010. Read more about the album here. |
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MISSED NICK HORNBY ON AUTHORSLIVE? You can still read the archive of the questions and answers 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. |
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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