UNIDENTIFIED PERSON: (Reading) It was the best of times. It was the worst of times. NADWORNY: ...And... (SOUNDBITE OF SONG, "BABY I'M A STAR") PRINCE: (Singing) Hey ...

Model railway maker Hornby has seen its sales surge by 33% in the six months to the end of September, as more people took up hobbies in lockdown. The firm, which also makes Corgi cars and Scalextric ...

Richard Ames ran model railway maker for less than two years and had said it also risks breaching bank lending agreement Hornby’s chief executive, Richard Ames, has quit less than a week after the ...

Nick Hornby’s new novel, Funny Girl, begins in 1964, around the time the 1960s are really starting to become The Sixties. His heroine, a small-town beauty queen named Barbara, goes through a ...

You can get a crash course in Nick Hornby’s work in the span of an hour-long London walk. The artist has three permanent sculptures installed across the city, metal ...

Hornby's 1995 novel about a record shop owner was made into a film in 2000. Now it's been adapted and updated into a new Hulu series, starring Zoë Kravitz. Originally broadcast in 1995. ZOE KRAVITZ: ...

If there was a prize for the most punned business in Britain, Hornby would surely take the crown. Every year, the model train and plane maker’s results would either see Hornby “steaming ahead” or ...

Nick Hornby has never owned a setlist, but his latest charity endeavor, Setlists For Young Voices, may change that. The project, conceived by Hornby alongside authors Dave Eggers and Michael Chabon, ...

Richard Phipps Hornby, politician and businessman: born St Michael's on Wyre, Lancashire 20 June 1922; History master, Eton College 1948-50; staff, Unilever 1951-52, staff, J. Walter Thompson 1952-63, ...

Model railway maker Hornby has seen its sales surge by 33% in the six months to the end of September, as more people took up hobbies in lockdown. The firm, which also makes Corgi cars and Scalextric ...