The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong
Inspired by real events, this is a story about gangs, growing up in Scotland and the struggles young people face in choosing a future in Britain today.
A swaggering, incendiary debut. . The non-standard English forges a dazzling poetry of its own . . . pitches Armstrong straight into the first division of Scottish writers. -- Jude Cook * Guardian *
The Young Team is a landmark in Scottish literature. It reminds me of Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby. -- Damian Barr, author of Maggie & Me
Armstrong’s hard-hitting novel is Trainspotting for a new generation. * Independent *
Raw and lyrical . . . written in a voice that recalls Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner – dialect that fizzes off the page. * Observer *
[A] gripping debut novel . . . he is quite a phenomenon . . . one of the most admired young voices in British fiction. -- Mike Wade * The Times *
A riveting debut novel . . . it crackles with teenage energy . . . has already engendered a buzz that many other debut novelists would kill for. * Herald *
It is Trainspotting meets Clockwork Orange in this depiction of gang life in North Lanarkshire . . . it gives us a voice from a place - geographically and socio-economically - we don’t often hear from. -- John Self * The Times *
The Young Team is a book full of guts, power, humour and humanity. -- Kerry Hudson, author of Lowborn
Bright, brittle and boiling with immediacy . . . His work is vivid, dynamic and sharp as a whip. -- Janice Galloway, author of The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Phenomenal. It’s been ages since I read a book so funny, visceral, or powerful. -- David Whitehouse, author of Bed
The Young Team is a landmark in Scottish literature. It reminds me of Catcher in the Rye and The Great Gatsby. -- Damian Barr, author of Maggie & Me
Armstrong’s hard-hitting novel is Trainspotting for a new generation. * Independent *
Raw and lyrical . . . written in a voice that recalls Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner – dialect that fizzes off the page. * Observer *
[A] gripping debut novel . . . he is quite a phenomenon . . . one of the most admired young voices in British fiction. -- Mike Wade * The Times *
A riveting debut novel . . . it crackles with teenage energy . . . has already engendered a buzz that many other debut novelists would kill for. * Herald *
It is Trainspotting meets Clockwork Orange in this depiction of gang life in North Lanarkshire . . . it gives us a voice from a place - geographically and socio-economically - we don’t often hear from. -- John Self * The Times *
The Young Team is a book full of guts, power, humour and humanity. -- Kerry Hudson, author of Lowborn
Bright, brittle and boiling with immediacy . . . His work is vivid, dynamic and sharp as a whip. -- Janice Galloway, author of The Trick is to Keep Breathing
Phenomenal. It’s been ages since I read a book so funny, visceral, or powerful. -- David Whitehouse, author of Bed
Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire’s gang culture. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where he returned to study a Masters’ in Creative Writing. His bestselling debut novel, The Young Team, is inspired by his experiences. It won a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and Scots Book o the Year 2021. Graeme presented 'Scotland the Rave', a documentary screened by the BBC that explored Scotland’s rave and PCDJ culture, which was subsequently nominated for a BAFTA Scotland and RTS Scotland Award. Graeme was named as one of Granta’s ‘Best of Young British Novelists 5’.
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| ISBN 13 | 9781529017366 |
| ISBN 10 | 152901736X |
| Title | The Young Team |
| Author | Graeme Armstrong |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Pan Macmillan |
| Year published | 2021-04-01 |
| Number of pages | 400 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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