Nick Hornby Hornby, the chairman of London and Continental Railways, and Margaret Audrey, Lady Hornby ("née" Withers). He was brought up in Maidenhead, and educated at Maidenhead Grammar School and Jesus College, Cambridge, where he read English. His parents divorced when he was eleven. Hornby published his first book in 1992, a collection of essays about American Writers such as Tobias Wolff and Ann Beattie, titled "Contemporary American Fiction". Hornby's second book, "Fever Pitch", also published in 1992, is an autobiographical story detailing his fanatical support for Arsenal Football Club. As a result, Hornby received the William Hill Sports Book of the
Tom Watt (actor) theatre and stage roles. Most notably, he starred in the one-man show "Fever Pitch", based on the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. In 2014 he started working on a local crowdfunded spy thriller in Torrevieja, Spain, released in 2017. After leaving "EastEnders", Watt combined acting with his second passion, football, by becoming a sports journalist. He has presented for Channel 4, Radio 1, Radio 3, Radio 5 Live, talkSPORT, and cable TV. He has recently written, presented and produced several documentaries about football for BT Sport Films, including the 'Football Outposts' series. Until recently, he featured regularly on