Bøger af Nick Hornby

Lucy og Joseph er som dag og nat. Ingen af dem søger kærligheden, ingen af dem har gode erfaringer med samme – og ingen af dem ved, at de er hinandens bedste chance for at finde den igen.En hverdagsbegivenhed kan godt være livsændrende. Det er Lucy et levende bevis på. Da hun møder Joseph bag disken hos sin lokale slagter i Nord-London ved hun, at hun ikke vil kunne slippe ham. Problemet er bare, at Lucy ikke ligefrem leder efter en kæreste. Til gengæld mangler hun en kompetent babysitter, og det kunne godt være Joseph. Så hvorfor ikke invitere ham hjem?Det andet, tredje, fjerde og femte problem er, at de er hinandens diametrale modsætninger: Lucy er en 41-årig folkeskolelærer og mor til to med en fortid, som hun ihærdigt prøver at glemme; Joseph er en 21-årig aspirerende DJ, som nebengesjæft er som fodboldtræner og slagter, og som stadig bor hos sin mor og har hele livet foran sig. Forholdet er en tikkende bombe – men måske er de begge to netop det, som den anden går og mangler.Hornbys nye roman er Hornby, når han er bedst. Det er en fortælling om kærlighedens ustyrlige kræft er, dens evne til at forene fraktioner og skubbe alle vores skeletter ud af skabet i ét stort ragnarok og måske, hvis man er heldig, til at være både overraskende og overrumplende.Ingen som dig er en øm, morsom og uimodståelig roman om det der adskiller os og det, som gør at vi ikke kan holde os fra hinanden.

Jenny ist 16, klug und literaturbegeistert. Sie möchte das schnöde Vorstadtleben und die altmodischen Ansichten ihres Vaters hinter sich lassen und träumt von einem Studium in Oxford. Für diesen Traum arbeitet sie hart. Als sie aber den gut situierten Mittdreißiger David kennenlernt, entdeckt sie dessen glamouröse Welt und wittert den sozialen Aufstieg durch eine mögliche Heirat. Kurzzeitig legt sie ihre ehrgeizigen Träume von Bildung und Selbstverwirklichung ab.

Dieses Unterrichtsmodell bezieht sich auf folgende Textausgabe: Petersen Taschenbuch/Penguin Book, ISBN 3-88389-145-2 Contents:Die Personen - Der Inhalt - The Author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Romans im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des UnterrichtsmodellsComponent 1: Boys Will Be Boys: What makes a boy a boy? What makes a man a man? - Introduction of the two protagonists - The clash of two different worldsComponent 2: The Beginning of an Uncommon Relationship: The beginning of Marcus' disillusionment with his mother - Will as the good guy? - People who mean it - The visits start - The end of the visits and time for reflectionComponent 3: Marcus's and Will's Changing Relationship and the Discovery of Love: Will grapples his conscience to the ground - Marcus and Ellie strike up a friendship - Christmas at Fiona's place - Will falls in love and Marcus as well - Boys have to be strong - A friend in need is a friend indeed - Marcus's change - Will's changeComponent 4: Film Analysis: Casting the film About a Boy - Comic scenes - Modern techniques - The different endings - Watching the complete film

Dieses Unterrichtsmodell bezieht sich auf folgende Textausgabe: Klett, Bestell-Nr.: 579822 Contents:Die Personen - Der Inhalt - The author - Vorüberlegungen zum Einsatz des Romans im Unterricht - Klausuren - Konzeption des Unterrichtsmodells - Components - Weiterführende MaterialienComponent 1: Screwing it all upComponent 2: Welcome baby!Escape to Hastings - Facing the truthComponent 3: Life is not always what it seems in a Hollywood movieComponent 4: Looking back and beyond

In this publication to accompany Nick Hornby's first solo exhibition at a public institution, the London-based artist presents a substantial new body of sculptures. Hornby explores themes of portraiture, the body, identity, sexuality and intimacy in the digital era.

An Education is Nick Hornby's Oscar-nominated screenplay of Lynn Barber's lifeBased on Lynn Barber's extraordinary memoir, An Education is set in the early 1960s and tells the story of a sixteen-year-old English girl's encounter and relationship with a charming older man who is much more, and much less, than he says he is. Taking this strange story as his starting point, Nick Hornby has scripted an Oscar-nominated film, starring Carey Mulligan and Peter Sarsgraad, which is funny and shocking in equal measure - and which brilliantly captures a Britain emerging from the sleepy 50s and on the brink of a glittering new decade.Fans of British writing and cinema alike, from Brighton Rock to Atonement will enjoy this mesmerizing book.

'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ... Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.'In his first non-fiction work since Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are just songs that he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop.'The soundtrack to his life ... a revealing insight into one of Britain's most popular writers' Evening Standard

In his monthly accounts of what he's read along with what he may one day read Nick Hornby brilliantly explores everything from the classic to the graphic novel, as well as poems, plays, sports books and other kinds of non-fiction. If he occasionally implores a biographer for brevity, or abandons a literary work in favour of an Arsenal match, then all is not lost. His writing, full of all the joy and surprise and despair that books bring him, reveals why we still read, even when there's football on TV, a pram in the hall or a good band playing at our local pub.

Penguin presents the unabridged, downloadable audiobook edition of How to be Good by Nick Hornby, read by Claire Higgins. According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. Shes 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. But when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katies sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions. Nick Hornbys brilliant new novel, a No. 1 bestseller in the UK and Ireland, offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood, and asks that most difficult of questions: what does it mean to be good?

Stuff I've Been Reading by Nick Hornby - the bestselling novelist's rich, witty and inspiring reading diary'Read what you enjoy, not what bores you,' Nick Hornby tells us. And in this new collection of his columns from the Believer magazine he shows us how it's done. From historical tomes to comic books, literary novels to children's stories, political thrillers to travel writing, Stuff I've Been Reading details Nick's thoughts and experiences on books by George Orwell, J.M. Barrie, Muriel Spark, Claire Tomalin, Charles Dickens, Mark Twain, Jennifer Egan, Ian McEwan, Cormac McCarthy and many, many more. This wonderfully entertaining journey in reading differs from all other reviews or critical appreciations - it takes into account the role that books actually play in our lives.This book, which is classic Hornby, confirms the novelist's status as one of the world's most exciting curators of culture. It will be loved by fans of About a Boy and High Fidelity, as well as readers of Will Self, Zadie Smith, Stewart Lee and Charlie Brooker.

A dozen of the most successful and popular writers today including: Helen Fielding, Robert Harris, Patrick Marber, Zadie Smith, John O'Farrell, Roddy Doyle, Melissa Bank and Irvine Welsh have written 6000-word fictional monologues along the lines of Alan Bennet's Talking Heads. And Colin Firth makes his d but as a fiction writer. The result is a book of completely original stories that have heart, soul and wit. All the writers have given their work free, and Penguin is giving 1 per copy sold to the TreeHouse Trust, a charity which is setting up a unique school for autistic children

Will Freeman wants an easy life with no responsibilities. But then he meets Marcus - an unusual twelve year old boy with serious problems. About a Boy is a modern classic - a very funny story about a very serious subject: love. It's also a popular movie starring Hugh Grant.