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.

▼ 故事大綱
威兒是九○年代的彼得潘，三十六歲、未婚、總是尋求「揮之即去」的關係，唯一的問題是身邊的朋友一個個結婚生子，讓他越來越形單影隻。他沒有工作過，沒有什麼事可做，靠著父親寫的一首〈耶誕老人的超級雪橇〉，收版稅過活。為了填補生活的空缺，他自願到遊民廚房當志工，也聯絡過房地產仲介，說他想開一家餐廳，然後再開一家書店……窮極無聊之時，他心生一計，想藉著參加「單親不落單聯誼會」(SPAT)認識漂亮的單親媽媽，尋找他的下一個對象。首先，討厭小孩的他虛構了一個兩歲的兒子奈德，以及前任女友寶拉……。
瑪可思是個奇怪的十二歲小孩，在學校常常遭同學嘲笑、欺負，因為他髮型奇特、服裝怪異，還會不知不覺唱起歌來。他孤單、早熟，與媽媽菲歐娜兩人組成一個單親家庭。媽媽跟別人不一樣，總是告訴他不要重視外表，要有內涵。可是媽媽最近開始會無緣無故哭泣，而且常常請假不上班。有一天媽媽叫他和蘇西阿姨去參加SPAT的野餐，自己卻在家中仰藥自殺，一起去野餐的威兒幫忙把他們都送到醫院。
因為害怕孤單，瑪可思希望有一個多一點人口的家庭；為了幫助媽媽，他猜想幫媽媽找一個男朋友也許有幫助，所以他挑上了威兒。他要威兒開始和媽媽約會。而威兒也開始覺得，幫助一個奇怪的小孩和一個會自殺的媽媽，似乎比去餵流浪漢吃飯有趣多了，這是一個打發時間的好機會……。
▼ 精采摘錄
威兒．飛曼究竟有多酷？他過去三個月內，曾經和一個不太認識的女人上過床，他吃過搖頭丸，地點是在舞廳，而非在家裡進行社會學實驗。──More
對威兒來說，消磨一天的時間從來不是什麼大問題。他一生無所成就，可能不會讓他很得意，不過他有能力掌握手中多如大海般的時間，卻讓他頗為自滿。
開學後第一個晚上，瑪可思大約每隔半小時就醒過來一次...我就是不適合上學嘛。這一點，你怎麼跟別人解釋？
他們再度見面的時候，她立刻告訴威兒，自己已經有小孩；他很想把餐巾扔在地上，然後推開桌子逃之夭夭。

凯特是个医生，是个好人，膝下有一儿一女，过着幸福的中产生活。只不过，结婚经年，日子有些寡淡无味，尤其是丈夫戴维，因为写着一个号称是“霍洛威最愤怒的男人”的报纸专栏，似乎性格越发乖张、尖刻、自私了。毫无征兆，甚至也出乎凯特本人的意料，在外地一个停车场给戴维打电话，例行公事地问候家人时，她脱口而出，想要离婚。生活的天平此倾斜，凯特陷入无穷尽的困扰之中，丈夫戴维也为此紧张万分。可是，充满戏剧性的是，戴维在寻求心理帮助的过程中，偶遇一位叫做“好消息”的灵魂大师，他竟然摇身变为“早请示、晚汇报”的标准新好男人，事情开始复杂了……

"Books are, let's face it, better than everything else," writes Nick Hornby in his "Stuff I've Been Reading" column in The Believer. "If we played cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go 15 rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. Go on, try it. The Magic Flute v. Middlemarch? Middlemarch in six. The Last Supper v. Crime and Punishment? Fyodor on point And every now and again you'd get a shock, because that happens in sport, so Back to the Future III might land a lucky punch on Rabbit, Run; but I'm still backing literature 29 times out of 30." This book collects Hornby's popular columns in a single, artfully illustrated volume with selected passages from the novels, biographies, collections of poetry, and comics under discussion.

A collection of stories for wise young people and immature old people, written by favorites of all ages: Nick Hornby ( High Fidelity, About a Boy ), John Scieszka ( The Stinky Cheese Man ), Neil Gaiman ( The Sandman, American Gods ), and many others. Each story features color illustrations by a different artist, including Barry Blitt, Marcel Dzama, and Lane Smith. Lemony Snicket adds an introduction and a story of his own—at least, he starts one, and then it is up to the reader to finish. The story appears on the inside of the dust jacket; you add your own thrilling, joyful, or disgusting ending. The jacket then folds up into a fancy envelope, addressed to us. Our favorite ending will receive a fabulous prize of some sort.

At the end of 2003, as the first issue of The Believer was rising from the primordial ooze, Nick Hornby turned in the inaugural installment of a monthly column that immediately became a reader favorite. For the next ten years, Hornby’s incandescently funny "Stuff I’ve Been Reading” chronicled a singular reading life — one that is measured not just in "books bought” and "books read,” as each column begins, but in the way our feelings toward Celine Dion say a lot about who we are, the way Body Shop Vanilla Shower Gel can add excitement to our days, and the way John Updike might ruin our sex lives. Hornby’s column is both an impeccable, wide-ranging reading list and an indispensable reminder of why we read.

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

Rob does. He keeps a list, in fact. But Laura isn't on it—even though she's just become his latest ex. He's got his life back, you see. He can just do what he wants when he wants: like listen to whatever music he likes, look up the girls that are on his list, and generally behaves as if Laura never mattered. But Rob finds he can't move on. He's stuck in a really deep groove—and it's called Laura. Soon, Rob's asking himself some big questions: about love, about life—and about why we choose to share ours with the people we do.