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The Young Team Graeme Armstrong

The Young Team By Graeme Armstrong

The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong


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Summary

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.

The Young Team Summary

The Young Team: Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023 by Graeme Armstrong

The Times top ten bestseller
Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023
Scots Book o the Year 2021
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award 2021


'Trainspotting for a new generation' - Independent
'An instant Scottish classic' - The Skinny

2005. 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

The Young Team Reviews

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

About Graeme Armstrong

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. He is currently undertaking a PhD at the University of Strathclyde. His bestselling debut novel, The Young Team, is inspired by his experiences, and Picador published in March 2020. It won a Betty Trask Award, a Somerset Maugham Award, and Scots Book o the Year 2021. In 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 2022. Most recently, Graeme was named as one of Granta's 'Best of Young British Novelists 5'.

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GOR011283479
9781529017366
152901736X
The Young Team: Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023 by Graeme Armstrong
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Pan Macmillan
20210401
400
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