Nick Hornby is the author of seven internationally bestselling novels (Funny Girl, High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to be Good, A Long Way Down, Slam and Juliet, Naked) and several works of non-fiction including Fever Pitch, Songbook and Ten Years In The Tub. He has written screenplay adaptions of Lynn Barber?s An Education, nominated for an Academy Award, Cheryl Strayed?s Wild and Colm Tóibín?s Brooklyn. He lives in London.