Новинки Ника Хорнби

Весела і водночас філософська історія про дорослішання, кохання та, звісно, музику.

Роб - затятий меломан, який керує власним напівзбанкрутілим музичним магазином у Лондоні. Роба тільки-но кинула дівчина, Лора, - йому водночас і прикро, і приємно відчути себе вільним. Зрештою, її музичні смаки не були ідеальними. Слухаючи, як його співробітники складають черговий топ найкращих пісень, Роб створює свій - п’ять історій кохання, що завершились невдало, і водночас намагається зрозуміти, де у стосунках із жінками він бере фальшиву ноту.

Виявляється, що без Лори його життя звучить як осінній блюз...

Tucker Crowe, ehemaliger Rockstar und Ikone einer kleinen Schar gluhender Anhanger, lebt zuruckgezogen in einer amerikanischen Kleinstadt. Seinetwegen stellt Annie im weit entfernten England ihre Beziehung zu Duncan in Frage … Tucker Crowe, der 1986 kurz vor einem Gig spurlos verschwand, kann kaum glauben, was er im Internet alles uber sich lesen muss. Dort tauschen seine gluhendsten Fans Informationen aus, nachdem sie alle Statten seines Schaffens besucht haben, sie lesen seine Songtexte ruckwarts und tun noch manch andere merkwurdige Dinge, um Hinweise auf seine Person und seinen Aufenthaltsort zu erhalten. Zu dieser leicht ­verblendeten…

Als der 35-jahrige Rob Fleming, Besitzer eines mehr schlecht als recht laufenden Plattenladens, von seiner Freundin Laura verlassen wird, sortiert er erst mal in Ruhe seine Plattensammlung und genie?t die Ruckkehr ins Singledasein. Doch vielleicht schlie?en sich Schallplatten und Frauen ja doch nicht aus? Nick Hornbys literarische Bearbeitung der eigenartigen Beziehung von Mannern zu Schallplatten wurde zum Bestseller, was durch die Verfilmung von Stephen Frears noch verstarkt wurde.

The essential gift for lovers of Prince, Dickens and everyone in between!
In Nick Hornby's completely joyous and original new book two great figures share the stage. Charles Dickens and Prince. Two wildly different artists who caught fire and lit up the world in ways no others could. Where did their magic come from? How did they work so hard and produce so much? How did they manage or give in to the restlessness and intensity of their creativity? How did they use it, and did it kill them?
With wit, curiosity and deep admiration Nick Hornby traces their extraordinary lives - from their difficult beginnings to the women they fell for to their limitless energy for work, to their money and the movies - and brilliantly illuminates their very particular kind of genius.

Thirty-six-year-old Londoner Will loves his life. Living carefree off the royalties of his dad's Christmas song, he's rich, unattached and has zero responsibilities - just the way he likes it.

But when Will meets Marcus, an awkward twelve-year-old who listens to Joni Mitchell and accidentally kills ducks with loaves of bread, an unlikely friendship starts to bloom.

Can this odd duo teach each another how to finally act their age?

Make them laugh, and they're yours forever . . .

Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She only wants to make people laugh. So she leaves her hometown behind, takes herself off to London, and lands a life-changing audition for a new BBC comedy series. Overnight she becomes Sophie Straw: charming, gorgeous, destined to win the nation's hearts.

Funny Girl is the story of a smash-hit TV show and the people behind the scenes: the writers, Tony and Bill, friends since national service and comedy obsessives; producer Dennis, Oxbridge educated, clever, mild and not-so-secretly devoted to his star actress Sophie; and dashing male lead Clive, who firmly believes he's destined for better things. The show's success continues rocketing and the cast and crew are having the time of their lives. But when the script begins to get a bit too close to home, and life starts imitating art, they all face a choice. How long can they keep going before it's time to change the channel?

Робу 35 лет, у него свой магазин виниловых пластинок, четкие представления о мире, и... его только что бросила девушка ради другого парня. Он чувствует себя несчастным, но в то же время освобожденным, так как не готов брать лишние жизненные обязательства. Роб проводит время в компании своих сотрудников, составляет списки «топ-5» и видится с бывшими, чтобы понять себя и пересмотреть неудачи в отношениях. Это приводит его к очень интересным и важным личным открытиям.
«Hi-Fi» Ника Хорнби — смешная и печальная, остроумная и порой глубокомысленная, трогательная и местами циничная история о любви.

Lucy married just the sort of man you might expect: a university graduate who runs his own business. Unfortunately he turned out to have serious dependency issues.
Joseph is shaking off the memory of his last date, a girl who ticked all the right boxes and also drove him up the wall.
On an average Saturday morning in a butcher's shop in North London, Lucy and Joseph meet on opposite sides of the counter. She is a teacher and mother of two, with a past she is trying to forget; he is an aspiring DJ with a wide-open future that maybe needs to start becoming more focused. Lucy and Joseph are opposites in almost all ways. Can something life-changing grow from uncommon ground?
Nick Hornby's brilliantly observed, tender and brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who may not be just like you at all.

Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isnt on it - even though shes just become his latest ex. Hes 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 cant move on. Hes stuck in a really deep groove - and its called Laura. Soon, hes asking himself some big questions: about love, about life - and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do. A million-copy bestseller, and adapted into a 2000 film starring John Cusack, High Fidelity explores the world of break-ups, make-ups and what it is to be in love. This astutely observed and wickedly funny book will be enjoyed by readers of David Nicholls and William Boyd, and by generations of readers to come.

Робу 35 лет, у него свой магазин виниловых пластинок, четкие представления о мире и. его только что бросила девушка ради другого парня. Он чувствует себя несчастным, но в тоже время освобожденным, так как не готов брать лишние жизненные обязательства. Роб проводит время в компании своих сотрудников, составляет списки "топ-5" и видится с бывшими, чтобы понять себя и пересмотреть неудачи в отношениях. Это приводит его к очень интересным и важным личным открытиям. "Hi-Fi" Ника Хорнби - смешная и печальная, остроумная и порой глубокомысленная, трогательная и местами циничная история о любви.

Впервые на русском — новейший роман от прославленного автора таких бестселлеров, как «Hi-Fi», «Мой мальчик», «Футбольная горячка», «Долгое падение», «Смешная девчонка» и других, разошедшихся по миру тиражом свыше пяти миллионов экземпляров и успешно экранизированных. Ник Хорнби вновь подтвердил свою славу «признанного исследователя пограничных областей между высокой, но ханжеской, и низовой, но искренней культурами» (Лев Данилкин, «Афиша»). Рядовым субботним утром в мясной лавке в Северном Лондоне встречаются Люси и Джозеф — по разные стороны прилавка. Она школьный завуч, воспитывающая сыновей-близнецов в одиночку после травматического…

Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It's not a match anyone one could have predicted. He's of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.

Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person--someone you didn't see coming.

This warm, wise, highly entertaining twenty-first century love story is about what happens when the person who makes you happiest is someone you never expected

Lucy used to handle her adult romantic life according to the script she'd been handed. She met a guy just like herself: same age, same background, same hopes and dreams; they got married and started a family. Too bad he made her miserable. Now, two decades later, she's a nearly-divorced, forty-one-year-old schoolteacher with two school-aged sons, and there is no script anymore. So when she meets Joseph, she isn't exactly looking for love--she's more in the market for a babysitter. Joseph is twenty-two, living at home with his mother, and working several jobs, including the butcher counter where he and Lucy meet. It's not a match anyone one could have predicted. He's of a different class, a different culture, and a different generation. But sometimes it turns out that the person who can make you happiest is the one you least expect, though it can take some maneuvering to see it through.

Just Like You is a brilliantly observed, tender, but also brutally funny new novel that gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person--someone you didn't see coming.

Each week, Tom and Louise meet for a quick drink in the pub before they go to meet their marriage counsellor. Married for years and with two children, a recent incident has exposed the fault lines in their relationship in a way that Tom, for one, does not wish to think about.

In the ten minutes in the pub they talk about the agenda for the session, what they talked about last week, what they will definitely not talk about with the counsellor, and how much better off they are than the couple whose counselling slot immediately precedes their own.

Over the ten weeks that follow Tom and Louise begin to wonder: what if marriage is like a computer? When you take it apart to see how it works you might just be left with a million pieces you can't put back together . . .

Relationships, rock stars and last chances - the new bestseller by the author of High Fidelity. 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 sea-front? 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 judgmental…

Nick Hornby's internationally bestselling first novel, available as a Penguin Essential for the first time Nick Hornby's first novel, an international bestseller and instantly recognized by critics and readers alike as a classic, helps to explain men to women, and men to men. Rob is good on music: he owns a small record shop and has strong views on what's decent and what isn't. But he's much less good on relationships. In fact, he's not at all sure that he wants to commit himself to anyone. So it's hardly surprising that his girlfriend decides that enough is enough.

A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of Funny Girl, About a Boy, and High Fidelity.
Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin…

Songbook is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives—all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape.

A brutally truthful, compassionate novel about the heart, mind, and soul of a woman who, confronted by her husband’s sudden and extreme spiritual conversion, is forced to learn “how to be good”—whatever that means, and for better or worse…

Katie Carr is a good person…sort of. For years her husband’s been selfish, sarcastic, and underemployed.

But now David’s changed. He’s become a good person, too—really good. He’s found a spiritual leader. He has become kind, soft-spoken, and earnest. Katie isn’t sure if this is deeply felt conversion, a brain tumor—or David’s most brilliantly vicious manipulation yet. Because she’s finding it more and more difficult to live with David—and with herself.

Rob Fleming is a London record store owner in his mid-thirties whose girlfriend, Laura, has just left him. At the record shop named Championship Vinyl Rob and his employees Dick and Barry spend their free moments discussing mix-tape aesthetics and constructing "top-five" lists of anything that demonstrates their knowledge of music. Rob, recalling his five most memorable breakups, sets about getting in touch with the former girlfriends. Eventually, Rob's re-examination of his failed relationships and the death of Laura's father bring the two back together. Their relationship is cemented by the launch of a new purposefulness to Rob's life in…

Will Freeman may have discovered the key to dating success: If the simple fact that they were single mothers meant that gorgeous women – women who would not ordinarily look twice a Will – might not only be willing, but enthusiastic about dating him, then he was really onto something. Single mothers – bright, attractive, available women – thousands of them, were all over London. He just had to find them. SPAT: Single Parents – Alone Together. It was a brilliant plan. And Will wasn’t going to let the fact that he didn’t have a child himself hold him back. A fictional two-year-old named Ned wouldn’t be the first thing he’d invented. And it…