Description

“All I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don’t like them as much as I do.” —Nick Hornby, from Songbook

A wise and hilarious collection from the bestselling author of Dickens and Prince, Just Like You, Funny Girl and About a Boy.

Songs, songwriters, and why and how they get under our skin…

Songbook is Nick Hornby’s labor of love. A shrewd, funny, and completely unique collection of musings on pop music, why it’s good, what makes us listen and love it, and the ways in which it attaches itself to our lives—all with the beat of a perfectly mastered mix tape. 

About the Author

Nick Hornby is the author of the novelsA Long Way Down, Slam,How to Be Good, High Fidelity, andAbout a Boy, and the memoirFever Pitch. He is also the author ofSongbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award,Shakespeare Wrote for Money, andThe Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collectionSpeaking with the Angel. He is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ E. M. Forster Award and the winner of the 2003 Orange Word International Writers’ London Award. Among his many other honors and awards, four of his titles have been namedNew York TimesNotable Books. A film written by Hornby,An Education– shown at the Sundance Film Festival to great acclaim – was the lead movie at the 2009 Toronto Film Festival and distributed by Sony that fall. That same September, the author published his latest novel,Juliet, Nakedto wide acclaim. Hornby lives in North London.