Immediately check your tendency to not own this book

"Books, Movies, Rhythm, Blues brings together the best of Nick Hornby's non-fiction pieces on film and tv, writers and painters and music..." [shut up and take my money!]

"...and including one exceptional fragment of autobiography."

Hornby read that exceptional fragment at the start of his City Arts and Lectures appearance last week, and it alone is worth the price of admission.

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