THE OMNIBUS

FEVER PITCH: ¿Whether you are interested in football or not, this is tears-running-down-your-face funny, read-bits-out-to-complete-strangers funny, but also highly perceptive and honest about Hornby¿s obsession and the state of the game. Fever Pitch is not only the best football book ever written, it¿s the funniest book of the year¿ Nicholas Lezard, GQ HIGH FIDELITY: ¿Brilliant . . . a very funny and concise explanation of why we men are as we are. If you are male, you should read it and then make your partner read it, so they will no longer hate you but pity you instead¿ Harry Enfield, Independent on Sunday ABOUT A BOY: ¿An almost perfect book, hugely entertaining and on the side of the angels . . . About a Boy is laughter in the dark¿ Russell Celyn Jones, The Times