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by Armstrong, Graeme

The Young Team

£9.99

Author: Armstrong, Graeme

Central Scotland

Published on 1 April 2021 by PAN MACMILLAN (Picador) in the United Kingdom.

Paperback | 400 pages
197 x 129 x 28 | 274g

The Times top ten bestsellerGranta Best of Young British NovelistsScots Book o the YearWinner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award‘Trainspotting for a new generation’ – Independent‘An instant Scottish classic’ – The Skinny2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of adjacent Lanarkshire, Scotland’s former industrial heartland, wee boys become postcode warriors.

2004. Azzy Williams joins the Young Team [YTP]. A brutal gang conflict with their deadly rivals, the Young Toi [YTB] begins.

2012. Azzy dreams of another life. He faces his toughest fight of all – the fight for a different future.

Expect Buckfast. Expect bravado. Expect street philosophy. Expect rave culture. Expect anxiety. Expect addiction. Expect a serious facial injury every six hours. Expect murder.

Hope for a way out.

Inspired by the experiences of its author, Graeme Armstrong, The Young Team is an energetic novel, full of the loyalty, laughs, mischief, boredom, violence and threat of life on these streets. It looks beyond the tabloid stereotypes to tell a powerful story about the realities of life for young people in Britain today.

‘A swaggering, incendiary debut’ – Guardian‘Dialect that fizzes off the page’ – Observer‘One of the most admired young voices in British fiction’ – The Times

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Weight 0.274 kg
Dimensions 19.7 × 12.9 × 2.8 cm