Nick Hornby

Nick’s best-known books are the internationally bestselling novels High Fidelity, About A Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down and Juliet, Naked. Nick’s non-fiction books include the football memoir Fever Pitch and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree, a collection of Nick’s essays on books and culture. He is also the author of Slam, which is vintage Hornby for teenagers.

Fever Pitch, High Fidelity, About A Boy and A Long Way Down have all been made into successful, and much-loved, films, starring Colin Firth, John Cusak, and Hugh Grant, and Drew Barrymore. Nick has also scripted the adaptation of Lynn Barber’s memoir An Education, as well as Brooklyn by Colm Toibin.