PERHAPS A GIFT VOUCHER FOR MUM?: MOTHER'S DAY
NICK HORNBY is the bestselling author of eight novels, including Just Like You, High Fidelity and About a Boy, and several works of nonfiction including Fever Pitch. He has also written numerous award-winning screenplays for film and television including Brooklyn, Wild and, most recently, State of the Union.
I love this. It's smart and funny and elegantly persuasive -- Robert Douglas-Fairhurst, author of Becoming Dickens Well, here's something you didn't expect - a joint biography of Charles Dickens and the pocket-sized popster Prince. And why not? The Fever Pitch chappie explores the nature of genius and what unites the inimitable Boz and the Imp of the Perverse * The Times, Best Books for Autumn * Hornby is a writer who dares to be witty, intelligent and emotionally generous at once * New York Times on Just Like You * Hornby has put his finger on truths that have been unspoken for generations * Irish Times on Fever Pitch * Extremely cleverly observed * Mail on Sunday on High Fidelity *
