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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 just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behave as if Laura never mattered.But Rob finds he can't move on.He's stuck in a really deep groove - and it's called Laura.Soon, he's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.

From the " New York Times" bestselling author--the shooting script to his award-winning film, with an original Introduction and vivid stills from the movie. Jenny is a 16-year-old girl stifled by the tedium of adolescence; she can't wait for her sophisticated adult life to begin. One rainy day her suburban existence is upended by the arrival of David, a much older suitor who introduces her to a glittering new world of concerts, art, smoky bars, urban nightlife, and his glamorous friends, replacing her traditional education with his own version. It could be her awakening--or her undoing. This edition of Hornby's adapted screenplay, which includes stills from the film, is a perfect accompaniment to the highly anticipated movie, which stars Carey Mulligan as Jenny, Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Dominic Cooper, and Alfred Molina. It is a must-have for fans of Hornby's novels, featuring his signature pitch-perfect dialogue, mordant wit, and the resonant humanity of his writing. Watch a Video

Une chronique hilarante et terriblement perspicace d un mariage ordinaire.

The person you are with is just like you: same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is a disaster. Then, when and where you least expect it, you meet someone new. You seem to have nothing in common and yet, somehow, it feels totally right.Nick Hornby's brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who is not just like you at all.

Juliet, Naked is bestselling author Nick Hornby's moving, funny account of life's second chances Annie's put fifteen years into safe, slightly obsessive Duncan, and now she'd like her money back, please. It's time to move on. But she lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked. Is she really going to find real, proper, feel-it-deep-down-in-your-boots love on a damp and windy seafront? Or perhaps she should follow her heart and pursue Tucker, the reclusive American rock star, who keeps emailing her his smart advice. But between Annie and her second chance lie a few obstacles. There's Malcolm, the world's most judgemental therapist, and Barnesy, the north's most extrovert dancer. There's what men and women will do and won't do for love. And, of course, there's Tucker. . .

Era 1995 y yo vivía en Cricklewood, un siniestro barrio londinense donde, una década atrás, Dennis Nilsen había matado a quince personas y arrojado sus restos por el retrete. No era muy feliz. Cultivaba una anorexia a media jornada, trabajaba en McDonalds, vivia con un expresidiario y varios ratones, habia roto con una novia (horrible) y con la subcultura mod. Tenia veinticuatro años y creia que mis sueños se habian ido por el vater, como cachos de victimas de Nilsen. Incluso habia dejado de leer, tras decidir, con Philip Larkin, que los libros eran un monton de mierda y que valia mas darle al frasco. Y escuchar rocknroll.Entonces recibi un paquete de mi madre. Contenia un ejemplar de Alta fidelidad, de Nick Hornby, y una carta: Este libro eres tu. Y lo era. De acuerdo, yo no llevaba jerseis horribles, como Rob, el propietario de la tienda de discos que protagoniza la novela, pero el libro la clavaba en lo restante: melancolia (tic), obsesion por hacer listas (tic), casetes recopilatorios con fines amatorios (tic), halo loser (tic), nerdez irreparable (tic), odio a Sting (requetetic).Alta fidelidadme recordo que algunas novelas si hablaban de mi (nuestra) circunstancia. Me devolvio la ilusion y recalento mi entusiasmo. Me hizo volver a amar los libros (aunque nunca deje de darle al frasco). Y me recordo (supertic) que la musica pop era la octava maravilla del planeta. Miradme: 1996, cuarto enmoquetado, engullendo Barons de lata y escribiendo paridas mientras suena elTen Spot de Shudder to Think y elDemmamussabebonk de Snuff. Tras varios años de rencor homicida, asoma en mi cara una cauta sonrisa.Cheers, Nick.Kiko AmatIlustracion de cubierta: Clara Leon

"About a boy" - This is a hip, smart, funny and touching account of a thirty-something, unmarried and very cool Londoner, Will Lightman, whose search for eligible young women leads him to invent a young son so as to join S.P.A.T. - Single Parents Alone Together - a support group for single parents. "Fever pitch" - It is autobiographical, telling the story of the author`s relationship with football (soccer) and with Arsenal F.C. in particular. "How to be good" - Katie Carr is a good person. She recycles. She`s against racism. She`s a good doctor, a good mom, a good wife....well, maybe not that last one, considering she`s having an affair and has just requested a divorce via cell phone. But who could blame her? For years her husband`s been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed, writing the "Angriest Man in Holloway" column for their local paper.

Will Behr lives on his own and does not want children, but he does see the point of single mothers, especially if they look like Julie Christie. Then he meets Marcus, whose parents have split up and who is being persecuted by bullies. Marcus discovers that Will has a lot to teach him about life.

El Rey -Elvis Presley- dijo una vez que la música es algo que te hace mover por dentro y por fuera. Y Nick Hornby escribe sobre las canciones que le hacen mover y le conmueven, las que amó alguna vez y las que ocupan un lugar significativo en la banda sonora de su vida. Comienza con Teenage Fanclub, Tu amor es el lugar desde el que vengo, y termina con la esplendida Patty Smith y su mitica meada en el rio. Y entre los unos y la otra, canciones de Van Morrison -Hornby quisiera que en su funeral tocaran Caravan-, de Bob Dylan, de Bruce Springsteen -ha escuchado Thunder Road cientos de veces, y fue la cancion que le hizo desear ser escritor-, de Badly Drawn Boy, lan Dury, Nelly Furtado... Hornby intenta definir aquello que hay en la musica pop que nos toca tan intensamente, como ninguna otra musica puede hacerlo, y quiza su libro no solo es una cronica de canciones, sino tambien de instantes, de revelaciones, de recuerdos ligados a estas musicas tan perecederas, tan fugaces, tan irreemplazables. Una parabola maravillosa y nada pretenciosa sobre el poder de la musica, una lectura intensamente placentera (Vicki Green).

Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him - beginning with Teenage Fanclub's 'Your Love is the Place That I Come From', ending with Patti Smith's 'Pissing in a River', and encompassing singers as varied as Van Morrison and Nelly Furtado, songs as different as 'Thunder Road' and 'Puff the Magic Dragon' (reggae style). He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in the Body Shop.

Comment expliquer les résonances que trouvent certaines chansons dans nos vies et qui nous poussent à les réécouter sans cesse ? Pourquoi la chanson d'amour est-elle le sommet de la pop ? On savait d

Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs - most of them loved, some of them once loved, all of them significant to him. Together with additional writings on music from his column in "The New Yorker", "31 Songs" is for Hornby what many of us have always wanted: a soundtrack to accompany life.

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a doctor, after all, and doctors are decent people, and on top of that, her husband David is the self-styled Angriest Man in Holloway. When David suddenly becomes good, however - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions...