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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 windy seafront? Or perhaps she should follow her heart and pursue Tucker, the reclusive American rock star, who keeps emailing her his smart advice. But between Annie and her second chance lie a few obstacles. There''s Malcolm, the world''s most judgemental therapist, and Barnesy, the north''s most extrovert dancer. There''s what men and women will do and won''t do for love. And, of course, there''s Tucker. . .

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 totally right.Nick Hornby''s brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who is not just like you at all.

The person you are with is just like you- same background, same age, same interests. The perfect match. And it is an unmitigated 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 totally right.Nick Hornby's brilliantly observed, tender but also brutally funny new novel gets to the heart of what it means to fall surprisingly and headlong in love with the best possible person - someone who is not just like you at all.

Hear someone who speaks entirely in the language of the Third Way, as imagined by Robert Harris. Listen to someone who has a small hostile creature in his room, as told by Roddy Doyle. Ten voices, ten completely new stories, narrated by ten different characters. And all written by ten of the most exciting and popular writers around. This sparkling collection has been put together by bestselling novelist Nick Hornby who also contributes an introduction about TreeHouse, the educational charity for autistic children. All royalties from the sales of Speaking with the Angel are going to TreeHouse.

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 both can start to act their age.

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie has earned her affair.She's 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 whenDavid suddenly becomes good, Katie's sums no longer add up, and she isforced to ask herself some very hard questions... Nick Hornby's brilliantnew novel offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage.