Hlavní postavou zábavného románu britského bestselleristy je krásná a talentovaná Barbara Parkerová, která se po vítězství v soutěži Miss Blackpool 1964 rozhodne, že královnou krásy být nechce. Inspirovaná svým idolem, americkou herečkou Lucille Ballovou, se vydá do Londýna, kde se hodlá prosadit jako televizní komička.
Věčně opálený Martin Sharp je zkrachovalý moderátor ranního televizního pořadu, jenž měl všechno, co si muž může přát – děti, ženu, báječný domov, skvělou práci –, a o všechno přišel. Sebevražda je pro Martina logickou a přiměřenou reakcí na život, který se nedá žít. Maureen nemá toho večera jinou možnost, protože Matty zůstal doma.
About a Boy is Nick Hornby's comic and heart-warming million-copy bestseller 'How cool was Will Freeman?' Too cool!
Juliet, Naked is bestselling author Nick Hornby's moving, funny account of life's second chancesAnnie'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.
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
Annie lives in a dull town on England's bleak east coast and is in a relationship with Duncan which mirrors the place. Tucker was once a brilliant songwriter and performer, who's gone into seclusion in rural America - or at least that's what his fans thin
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 (in Duncan's case, an obsession rather than an interest) is not enough to hold them together any more.
