Modern Delight
By Nick Hornby
2009
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A collection of funny, intimate and inspiring essays from an eclectic selection of some of our best loved authors, entertainers and national treasures, on what brings them delight. Taking its inspiration from J.B. Priestley's 1949 book "Delight", this book is filled with musings on themes universal, personal, eccentric and everyday - from Jo Brand on slapstick and Jeremy Paxman on frogspawn to Vince Cable on the countryside and Beryl Bainbridge on growing older. All proceeds from the book will go to two charities devoted to encouraging the delight of reading: Dyslexia Action, the UK's leading provider of services and support for people with dyslexia and literacy difficulties; and the London Library, the world's largest independent lending library, which is dedicated to the advancement of education, learning and knowledge. Other contributors include Michael Palin, Kate Mosse, Nick Hornby, Stephen Fry, Sebastian Faulks, Lynne Truss, Wendy Cope and many more with witty, wise and wonderful words on the delights in life.
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Author
Nick Hornby
Author · 37 books
Nick Hornby is the author of the novels A Long Way Down, Slam, How to Be Good, High Fidelity, and About a Boy, and the memoir Fever Pitch. He is also the author of Songbook, a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award, Shakespeare Wrote for Money, and The Polysyllabic Spree, as well as the editor of the short-story collection Speaking 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 named New York Times Notable 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, Naked to wide acclaim. Hornby lives in North London.
