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Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
$37.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Barbara Parker is Miss Blackpool of 1964, but she doesn't want to be a beauty queen. She wants to make people laugh, like her heroine Lucille Ball. So she leaves Blackpool and her family behind, takes herself off to London, and gets a job behind the cosmetics counter of a Kensington department store, wh ...Show more
Funny Girl by Nick Hornby
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
Make them laugh and they're yours forever...It's the swinging 60s and the nation is mesmerized by Sophie Straw, a former Blackpool beauty queen turned prime-time sitcom star. Sophie is a comic genius and a bombshell to boot - she might just have it all. Behind the scenes of her smash-hit show, Sophie is ...Show more
Juliet, Naked by Nick Hornby
$26.00 NZD
Category: 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
Just Like You by Nick Hornby
$37.00 NZD
Category: 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
Long Way Down by Nick Hornby
$26.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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 Yea ...Show more
Speaking with the Angel by Nick Hornby
$30.00 NZD
Category: 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
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