Penguin Books Australia

'An outstanding good collection . . . the best I have ever come across'
Spectator

ROBERT HARRIS * COLIN FIRTH * ZADIE SMITH * NICK NORNBY * DAVE EGGERS * RODDY DOYLE * HELEN FIELDING * IRVINE WELSH * JOHN O'FARRELL * MELISSA BANK * GILES SMITH * PATRICK MARBER

Speaking with the Angel is a sparkling collection of original short stories by twelve of the most exciting, innovative and entertaining writers...

Do you know your desert-island, all-time, top five most memorable split-ups?

For many people watching football is mere entertainment; to some it's more like a ritual; but to others, its highs and lows provide a narrative to life itself. For Nick Hornby's devotion to the game has provided one of the few constants in a life where the meaningful things – like growing up, leaving home and forming relationships– have rarely been as simple or as uncomplicated as his love...

'A stunner of a novel.  Utterly read-in-one-day, forget-where-you-are-on-the-tube gripping'
MARIE CLAIRE

'How cool was Will Freeman?'

'How cool!  At thirty-six, he's as hip as a teenager.  He's single, child-free, goes to the right clubs and knows which trainers to wear.  He's also found a great way to score with women: attend single parents' groups full of available (and grateful)...

A famous account of growing up to be a fanatical football supporter. Told through a series of match reports, FEVER PITCH has enjoyed enormous critical and commercial success since it was first published in 1992. It has helped to create a new kind ofsports writing, and established Hornby as one of the finest writers of his generation.

According to her own complex moral calculations, Katie Carr has earned her affair. She's a 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 when David suddenly becomes good - properly, maddeningly, give-away-all-his-money good - Katie's sums no longer add up, and she is forced to ask herself some very hard questions...