The Young Team

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.

Zusatztext Phenomenal . It's been ages since I read a book so funny, visceral, or powerful. Informationen zum Autor Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire's gang culture. He was inspired to study English Literature following his reading of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting at just sixteen. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he defied expectation to read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where, after graduating with honours, he returned to study a Masters' in Creative Writing. His debut novel, The Young Team is inspired by his experiences. Klappentext 'Sharp yet tender and mischievously funny, The Young Team pitches Armstrong straight into the first division of Scottish writers' Guardian Round here, in the schemes of the former industrial heartland of Scotland, your troops, your young team - they're everything. Azzy Williams is fourteen. Buckfast, gang fights, a growing reputation. This is his life and he loves it. Azzy Williams is eighteen. Drugs, raves, serious violence. Things are out of control. Azzy Williams is twenty-one. Addiction, gangsters, old enemies. He dreams of leaving it all behind. But round here, a way out isn't so easy to find . . . 'Riveting . . . it crackles with teenage energy . . . [and] has already engendered a buzz that many other debut novelists would kill for' Herald 'A phenomenon . . . one of the most admired young voices in British fiction' The Times 'Armstrong's hard-hitting novel is Trainspotting for a new generation' Independent Vorwort 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. Zusammenfassung 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....

Phenomenal. It's been ages since I read a book so funny, visceral, or powerful.

Autorentext

Graeme Armstrong is a Scottish writer from Airdrie. His teenage years were spent within North Lanarkshire's gang culture. He was inspired to study English Literature following his reading of Irvine Welsh's Trainspotting at just sixteen. Alongside overcoming his own struggles with drug addiction, alcohol abuse and violence, he defied expectation to read English as an undergraduate at the University of Stirling; where, after graduating with honours, he returned to study a Masters' in Creative Writing.

His debut novel, The Young Team is inspired by his experiences.

Klappentext

'Sharp yet tender and mischievously funny, The Young Team pitches Armstrong straight into the first division of Scottish writers' Guardian

Round here, in the schemes of the former industrial heartland of Scotland, your troops, your young team - they're everything.

Azzy Williams is fourteen. Buckfast, gang fights, a growing reputation. This is his life and he loves it.
Azzy Williams is eighteen. Drugs, raves, serious violence. Things are out of control.
Azzy Williams is twenty-one. Addiction, gangsters, old enemies. He dreams of leaving it all behind.

But round here, a way out isn't so easy to find . . .

'Riveting . . . it crackles with teenage energy . . . [and] has already engendered a buzz that many other debut novelists would kill for' Herald

'A phenomenon . . . one of the most admired young voices in British fiction' The Times

'Armstrong's hard-hitting novel is Trainspotting for a new generation' Independent