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Carey Mulligan finds out about life with an older man in "An Education." The movie, with screenplay by Nick Hornby, is a coming-of-age story, set in 1961, about a precocious 16-year-old girl.

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Busy Nick Hornby. New novel. New screenplay. Dad of three. And yet he is looking relaxed, refreshed, full of cheer.

Emma Thompson, left is the headsmistress in "An Education" - a story of a 16-year-old girl involved with an older man in early '60s London.

Garrison Players, the Dover area's community theater group, will stage an original play written by local playwright Lowell Williams entitled "History of the Roses." This story, which takes place simultaneously in the 1990s and the 1920s, was inspired by Portsmouth's Langdon House.

Nick Hornby is the acclaimed author of novels such as High Fidelity, Fever Pitch and About A Boy, to name a few, all of which have been made into films.

RESHUFFLE Day at No10 presents something of a dilemma in the first of a new series of Armando Iannucci's award-winning political comedy.

Duncan Mitchell is a peculiar fanatic and self-described authority on '80s rocker Tucker Crowe, who mysteriously dropped out of the public eye in 1986.

Gripped by Lynn Barber's intense memoir about her teenage affair with an older man, Nick Hornby determined to bring the story to the screen.

Nick Hornby's screenplay for new film An Education is the "girls' version of Fever Pitch", he has said.

He's a smooth operator, this David. He's 30 years old, and Jenny is 16, but when he can pull it off, because he's charmed her parents as thoroughly as he's charmed their daughter; he doesn't stop at the "you didn't tell me you had a sister" line when he meets her mother, but he brings over good wine and regales them with stories of his worldliness ...

"It's a very, very difficult profession and a mad industry," author Nick Hornby says of screenwriting.

"I'd want to play Lennon, but I probably would be cast as McCartney. I met Paul McCartney on a flight not long ago.

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Nick Hornby has an impeccable description of his writing style. "I think I'm more of a Bruce than a Dylan," he mused, introducing the kind of pop-culture reference that has been a hallmark of his work.

PODCAST: Nick Hornby reads from Juliet, Naked at the Coolidge [MP3] 0 If you ever happen to find yourself in England and you run into a neurotic middle-aged Londoner, a kid who asks strings of naive questions, and a music nerd who defines himself by his favorite band, then youa ve probably stumbled into a Nick Hornby novel.

The modern and dysfunctional man, who struggles to find his footing in relationships, career and, in fact, the world, has in many ways been the bread and butter of best-selling British author Nick Hornby's career.

Girls just wanna get rough. Believe it or not, they are led by that adorable little girl Gertie who befriended E.T. 27 years ago.

Nick Hornby is a recipient of the American Academy of Arts and Letters' E. M. Forster Award and the Orange Word International Writers' London Award.

If the real-life Rock and Roll Hall of Fame built a wing for fictional musicians, it would no doubt include exhibits on The Commitments, the rag-tag soul ensemble who star in Roddy Doyle's novel of the same name; Beatles knockoffs The Paranoids, from Thomas Pynchon's The Crying of Lot 49; Des Howell, the Brian Wilson-esque protagonist of Paul ...