All the books by Nick Hornby adapted to cinema and television

Rob Brooks, a female record store owner who’s obsessed with pop culture and Top Five lists in the rapidly gentrified neighborhood of Crown Heights, Brooklyn, revisit past relationships through music and pop culture, while trying to get over her one true love.

Rob Gordon is a music-loving man with a poor understanding of women. After being dumped by his long-term girlfriend, Laura, he tries to understand how he failed in his relationships by seeking out his old partners. Two shoplifting, skateboarding teenagers, Vince and Justin, are an annoyance to them until Rob listens to a recording that they made as The Kinky Wizards.

Successful songwriter and bachelor Will Freeman lives a carefree life in San Francisco as the ultimate man-child. His perfect world is turned upside down when single mother Fiona and her 11-year-old son Marcus move in next door. Will provides an escape for Marcus from his vegan, hippie, uncool, depressed mom.

During the peak of the 1960s, Barbara Parker was crowned Miss Blackpool, but she feels that there must be more to life than just being a beauty queen in a coastal town. She longs to become someone significant and the dazzling lights of London are drawing her in. Determined to discover her true identity, Barbara sets off on a journey to the capital city.

Will Freeman lives a serene and luxurious lifestyle devoid of responsibility in London thanks to substantial royalties left to him from a successful Christmas song composed by his father. Marcus’s influence leads Will to mature and he seeks out a relationship with Rachel, a self-assured career woman, bonding over their experiences raising teenage sons, though Will neglects to explain his relationship to Marcus.

English teacher Paul Ashworth believes his long standing obsession with Arsenal serves him well. But then he meets Sarah. Their relationship develops in tandem with Arsenal’s roller coaster fortunes in the football league, both leading to a nail biting climax.

Annie Platt contemplates escaping her hometown of Sandcliff, England, her job as a curator in a local museum, and her unhappy relationship with Duncan, a college teacher obsessed with Tucker Crowe, an American musician last heard from in 1993. An album titled Juliet, Naked arrives in the mail, containing acoustic demos from Crowe’s breakthrough album Juliet.

Martin Sharp is contemplating suicide on New Year’s Eve on the roof of the Toppers Building, high above London’s streets. He is interrupted by a woman, Maureen, who has the same fate in mind. She shyly offers to wait her turn, until two other strangers, a young woman named Jess and a pizza deliverer called J.J., also turn up.

When relaxed and charming Ben Wrightman meets workaholic Lindsey Meeks she finds him sweet and charming, they hit it off and when it is winter Ben can spend every waking hour with Lindsey, but when summer comes around the corner Lindsey discovers Ben’s obsession with the Boston Red Sox. She thinks it is perfect until everything goes downhill for them.

Skateboarding is everything for sixteen-year-old Sam, he spends all his time at the skatepark and even confides his thoughts and fears to his Tony Hawk poster, the most famous skater ever. However, Sam’s ultimate goal is to become the first member of his family to attend university and not repeat the mistake his mother, grandfather, and great-grandfather made by becoming a parent at sixteen. But when he meets Alice, he falls in love and it becomes so all-consuming that it distracts him from everything, even skateboarding.

Lucia, Marco’s mother, discovers by chance that her son has acted in a pornographic film and that, despite his poor acting skills, he is successful due to the size of his member. She and her husband Fausto, shocked by the revelation, will begin to ask themselves questions about why and how to deal with this discovery, between gossipy neighbors and Marco’s girlfriend. It will also be an opportunity for Lucia to change her relationship with her mother and sister, based on the usual routine and her poor communication.