Скачать книгу (размер 1 733 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 341) Аннотация: Funny Girl takes place in a swinging 60s where the nation is mesmerized by unlikely comedy star Sophie Straw, the former Blackpool beauty queen who just wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. Behind the scenes, 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: A Long Way Down — Nick Hornby's hilarious bestseller now a major motion picture starring Pierce Brosnan. 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block?' For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, 'pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve he's going to end it all... but not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: '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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: Ein witziger, trauriger und wunderbar einfühlsamer Roman über vier ganz unterschiedliche Menschen, die zufällig an einem Silvesterabend aufeinander treffen und deren Leben sich durch dieses Treffen für immer verändert ...
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: London GP Katie Carr always thought she was a good person. With her husband David making a living as 'The Angriest Man in Holloway', she figured she could put up with anything. Until, that is, David meets DJ Goodnews and becomes a good person too.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 381 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 272) Аннотация: 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 (taking off where The Complete Polysyllabic Spree finished), he shows us how it's done. Or at least, how he does it: whether plunging into a biography of…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: This is the Twentieth Anniversary Edition. As a young boy, growing up in London and watching his parents' marriage fall apart, Nick Hornby — author of High Fidelity, About a Boy, and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree — had little sense of home. Then his dad took him to Highbury. Arsenal's football ground would become the source of many of the strongest feelings he'd ever have: joy, humiliation,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 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. But when David suddenly becomes good — 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…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 217 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 240) Аннотация: 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 debut as a fiction writer. The result is a book of completely original stories that have…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: Nick Hornby's second bestselling novel is about sex, manliness and fatherhood. Will is thirty-six, comfortable and child-free. And he's discovered a brilliant new way of meeting women — through single-parent groups. Marcus is twelve and a little bitnerdish: he's got the kind of mother who made him listen to Joni Mitchell rather than Nirvana. Perhaps they can help each other out a little bit, and…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 544 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 304) Аннотация: Slam is a hilarious coming-of-age novel by bestselling author Nick Hornby '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 her rubbish boyfriend,…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 299 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 256) Аннотация: 'Can I explain why I wanted to jump off the top of a tower block? 'For disgraced TV presenter Martin Sharp the answer's pretty simple: he has, in his own words, pissed his life away'. And on New Year's Eve, he's going to end it all. But not, as it happens, alone. Because first single-mum Maureen, then eighteen-year-old Jess and lastly American rock-god JJ turn up and crash Martin's private party.…
Скачать книгу (размер 1 054 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 208) Аннотация: Warum kauft man sich manche Bücher und fängt sie noch auf dem Heimweg an, während andere im Regal verschimmeln? Und wie ändern sich Lesegewohnheiten, wenn plötzlich ein Baby da ist und Zeit und Ruhe an allen Ecken und Enden fehlen? Wie schafft man es, dennoch zu lesen? Und zwar das Richtige?
Скачать книгу (размер 2 115 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 416) Аннотация: What happens when a washed-up musician looks for anther chance? And a childless woman looks for a change? Juliet, Naked is a powerfully engrossing, humorous novel about music, love, loneliness, and the struggle to live up to one's promise.
Скачать книгу (размер 1 462 Kb , формат fb2, страниц 288) Аннотация: When you're 36, going on 18, life is about being hip, being cool, and embracing all that Mothercare has to offer... Nick Hornby's best-selling novel is now a phenomenally successful film starring Hugh Grant, from the makers of Four Weddings & A Funeral, Notting Hill and Bridget Jones's Diary. Starring: Hugh Grant (Bridget Jones's Diary); Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding); Rachel Weisz (The Mummy…