Description: 12-årige Marcus bestämmer sig för att adoptera Will som sin vicepappa. Från den dagen kan Will glömma sin dröm om ett rofyllt ungkarlsliv.

Description: Katie Carr believes she is a good person. With a capital G. She is a doctor, after all. Besides, her husband David is Holloway's Angriest Man. Which is another reason why she can justify lying in bed with Stephen. When David becomes good, really good, as in Feed the World and Give the Homeless Our Spare Room good, as opposed to his wife's Feed the Family and Buy a Big Issue good, Katie has some serious thinking to do. Nick Hornby's brilliant new novel offers a painfully funny account of modern marriage and parenthood and asks the question: what does it mean to be good?

Description: More than just a reading of Hornby's fourth novel, this audiobook is nearly an audio play with three excellent actors playing four characters. A famous pervert, an old maid, a crazy chick and a has-been rocker walk into a bar... well, they eventually do walk into a pub or two, but this disparate group of strangers first meet on a tower rooftop. Each of the quartet has independently decided to jump on New Year's Eve. Now, bonded by circumstance, they can't get rid of each other. Vance does a superb job rendering the glib tones of Martin, the TV anchor fallen from grace (he did jail time for having sex with a 15-year-old). His pompous but self-loathing delivery is dead on. Brick, with more than 150 audiobooks under his belt, perfectly nails the earnest voice and cockiness of J.J., the washed-up American rocker. And Kate Reading is outstanding playing both female characters. As Maureen, the older woman with no social life, she exudes quiet, naive dignity, but she really shines as Jess, the young wacko whose rudeness and rebellion are conveyed with a brash comical snap.

Description: Gerade als alles richtig gut läuft für Sam, lässt seine Ex-Freundin die Bombe platzen: Sie teilt ihm mit, dass sie schwanger ist. Eine Katastrophe für den 18-jährigen Sam. Er kann sich nur an eine Person wenden, an seinen Helden, die Skater-Legende Tony Hawk. Aber sogar der scheint diesmal nicht weiterhelfen zu können. Und so hängt es in dieser witzigen, bewegenden Geschichte allein von Sam ab, die richtigen Entscheidungen zu treffen. Mit jugendlicher Ausstrahlung liest Matthias Schweighöfer souverän diesen neuen Wurf von Nick Hornby und verströmt ganz nebenbei noch reichlich Charme. Nick Hornby ist arbeitet seit 1983 als freier Schriftsteller. Mit Romanen wie "Fever Pitch" (1992), "High Fidelity" (1995) und "About a Boy" (1998) wurde er berühmt.

Description: Silvester, auf dem Dach eines Hochhauses: Pech, dass gleich vier Menschen auf die Idee gekommen sind, sich dort das Leben zu nehmen. Da man sich schlecht umbringen kann, wenn einem andere dabei zusehen, steigt die seltsame Gruppe erst mal vom Dach, um das Problem der jüngsten Kandidatin, die nicht weiß, warum ihr Freund sie verlassen hat, zu lösen. Nach und nach erzählen sie sich ihre Geschichten. Da ist die altjüngferliche Maureen, deren Sohn Matty schwerstbehindert ist und die diese Belastung allein tragen muss, da ist Martin, der berühmte Talkmaster, den nach einem Gefängnisaufenthalt niemand mehr auf dem Bildschirm sehen will, Jess, die aufmüpfige Tochter eines Politikers, ist so direkt, dass sie alle vor den Kopf stößt, und JJ, der von seinem besten Freund, dem Sänger seiner Band, im Stich gelassen wurde. Die vier verabreden, mit dem finalen Sprung bis zum Valentinstag zu warten – und so findet eine Gruppe von Menschen zueinander, die unterschiedlicher nicht sein könnten und die einander doch auf wundersame Weise zu helfen wissen.

Description: Will Lightman is a Peter Pan for the 1990s. At 36, the terminally hip North Londoner is unmarried, hyper-concerned with his coolness quotient, and blithely living off the royalties of his father's novelty song. Will sees himself as entirely lacking in hidden depths--and he's proud of it! The only trouble is, his friends are succumbing to responsibilities and children, and he's increasingly left out in the cold. How can someone brilliantly equipped for meaningless relationships ensure that he'll continue to meet beautiful Julie Christie-like women and ensure that they'll throw him over before things get too profound? A brief encounter with a single mother sets Will off on his new career, that of "serial nice guy". As far as he's concerned--and remember, concern isn't his strong suit--he's the perfect catch for the young mother on the go. After an interlude of sexual bliss, she'll realize that her child isn't ready for a man in their life and Will can ride off into the Highgate sunset, where more damsels apparently await. The only catch is that the best way to meet these women is at single-parent get-togethers. In one of Nick Hornby's many hilarious (and embarrassing) scenes, Will falls into some serious misrepresentation at SPAT ("Single Parents--Alone Together"), passing himself off as a bereft single dad: "There was, he thought, an emotional truth here somewhere, and he could see now that his role-playing had a previously unsuspected artistic element to it. He was acting, yes, but in the noblest, most profound sense of the word."

High Fidelity (Audiobook)
Author: Nick Hornby
Publisher: Riverhead
Read by: Nigel Planer
Tapes: 6
Edition: Abridged edition
Date: 1998
Language: English
Codec: 96 kbps, 44100 Hz
Format: MP3
Size: 334 MB