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 ...

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 ...

The firm behind some of Britain's most iconic toys, including Airfix and Scalextric cars, has accumulated £17.2 million of debt. Legendary toy manufacturer, Hornby, has prepared a 'severe but ...

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 ...

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, ...