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Juliet Naked by Nick Hornby
$37.00 NZD
Category: World fiction | Reading Level: good
In 1986, legendary musician Tucker Crowe disappeared from the public eye and for 20 years, his rabid fans have speculated his whereabouts. Annie lives in Gooleness, the north's answer to a question nobody asked, and has put fifteen years into a safe relationship with one such "Crowe-ologist", Duncan. A ...Show more
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
$26.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 s ...Show more
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
$45.00 NZD
Category: No Category
Annie and Duncan are a mid-thirties couple who have reached a fork in the road, realising their shared interest in the reclusive musician Tucker Crowe is not enough to hold them together any more. When Annie hates Tucker's 'new release', a terrible demo of his famous album, it's the last straw - Duncan ...Show more
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Nick Hornby returns to his roots - music and messy relationships - in this funny and touching new novel which thoughtfully and sympathetically looks at how lives can be wasted but how they are never beyond redemption. Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with ...Show more
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction | Reading Level: very good
'Hornby is the poet of the everyday' Observer 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 totall ...Show more
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
$24.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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, ten ...Show more
More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself by Nick Hornby
$28.00 NZD
Category: Miscellaneous
"Read what you enjoy, not what bores you," Nick Hornby tells us. That simple, liberating, and indispensable directive animates each installment of the celebrated critic and author's monthly column in the Believer. In this delightful and never-musty tour of his reading life, Hornby tells us not just what ...Show more
Shakespeare Wrote for Money by Hornby Nick
$32.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
With an affectionate introduction by Sarah Vowell, this is the third and final collection of columns by celebrated novelist Nick Hornby from "The Believer" magazine. Hornby's monthly reading diary is unlike any arts column in any other publication; it discusses cultural artifacts the way they actually e ...Show more
Slam by Nick Hornby
$35.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
Whoever invented skateboarding is a genius. There's only one skater, and his name's Tony Hawk. It doesn't matter if you don't know who he is, just trust me. Not only is Hawk the world's best skater, he's also good to talk to. So I talk to Tony Hawk, and Tony Hawk talks back. Because just when it seemed ...Show more
Slam by Nick Hornby
$30.00 NZD
Category: Fiction and NZ Fiction
For 16-year-old Sam, life is about to get extremely complicated. He and his girlfriend-make that ex-girlfriend- Alicia have gotten themselves into a bit of trouble. Sam is suddenly forced to grow up and struggle with the familiar fears and inclinations that haunt us all. Nick Hornby's poignant and witty ...Show more
Slam by Nick Hornby
$28.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
'There was this time when everything seemed to have come together. And so obviously it was time to go and screw it all up'. Sam is sixteen and a skater. Just so there are no terrible misunderstandings: skating = skateboarding. There's no ice. Life is ticking along nicely for Sam: his mum's got rid of he ...Show more
Speaking with the Angel by Nick Hornby
$30.00 NZD
Category: World fiction
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 h ...Show more