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  • Published: 9 February 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141935225
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

31 Songs




A collection of Nick Hornby's popular music articles from the New Yorker, reissued to go alongside his essays on reading, The Complete Polysyllabic Spree

'I decided that I wanted to write a little book of essays about songs I loved ... Songs are what I listen to, almost to the exclusion of everything else.'
In his first non-fiction work since Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby writes about 31 songs that either have some great significance in his life - or are just songs that he loves. He discusses, among other things, guitar solos and losing your virginity to a Rod Stewart song and singers whose teeth whistle and the sort of music you hear in Body Shop.
'The soundtrack to his life ... a revealing insight into one of Britain's most popular writers' Evening Standard

  • Published: 9 February 2004
  • ISBN: 9780141935225
  • Imprint: Penguin eBooks
  • Format: EBook
  • Pages: 256

About the author

Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby was born in 1957. He is the author of five novels, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How To Be Good, A Long Way Down (shortlisted for the Whitbread Award) and Slam; three works of non-fiction, Fever Pitch (winner of the William Hill Sports Book of the Year Award), 31 Songs (shortlisted for the National Book Critics Circle Award) and The Complete Polysyllabic Spree; and a Pocket Penguin book of short stories, Otherwise Pandemonium.

Nick Hornby lives and works in Highbury, north London.

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