Few writers have so brilliantly captured the mores of the modern world quite so effectively as Nick Hornby. He writes brilliantly and hilariously about the passions and problems of ordinary people in today's world.

In these five novels and one confessional Hornby tackles football, music, being good, suicide, loneliness and teenage pregnancy. With plenty of jokes. It's no wonder that the Guardian said: 'Hornby pins down the age in which we live with precision and comic brilliance.'