Slam is the much-anticipated first teenage novel by the internationally bestselling author of Fever Pitch, High Fidelity and About a Boy.
In true Hornby style, Slam is at once funny, serious, thought-provoking and perfectly-pitched - a brilliant book for teenagers about sex, making mistakes, heroes and the future, in which Nick Hornby takes us inside the fevered mind of a hormonal teenage boy.

For sixteen-year-old, skateboarding-obsessed Sam, life is pretty good. He’s got plenty of spare time to hang out at the local skate park, he’s got a new girlfriend called Alicia who is damn hot, his mum has finally dumped her rubbish boyfriend Steve and he’s got world champion skater Tony Hawk to talk to about the meaning of life (albeit via a poster on his bedroom wall). BUT just when Sam thinks that things couldn’t get any better, in five seconds his life is changed forever. Alicia gets pregnant and nothing will ever be the same for Sam again.