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The Young Team
- Author
- Graeme Armstrong
- Narrator
- Graeme Armstrong
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Publish Date
- 25 June 2020
- Run Time
- 10 hours 33 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
This audiobook is narrated with stunning authenticity by the author, Graeme Armstrong.
The Times Top Ten Bestseller
A Granta Best of Young British Novelist
‘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’ – The Guardian
‘Dialect that fizzes off the page’ – The Observer
‘One of the most admired young voices in British fiction’ – The Times
Scots Book o the Year
Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award
Listeners are loving The Young Team:
'Absolutely fantastic. Enthralling from beginning to end'
'Seriously the best audiobook I have listened to!'
'This book is outstanding . . . Graeme Armstrong’s narration brings the characters to life'
Critics Review
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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.
The Guardian
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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
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Armstrong’s hard-hitting novel is Trainspotting for a new generation.
The Independent
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Raw and lyrical . . . written in a voice that recalls Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner – dialect that fizzes off the page.
The Observer
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[A] gripping debut novel . . . he is quite a phenomenon . . . one of the most admired young voices in British fiction.
The Times
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A riveting debut novel . . . it crackles with teenage energy . . . has already engendered a buzz that many other debut novelists would kill for.
The Herald
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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.
The Times
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The Young Team is a book full of guts, power, humour and humanity.
Kerry Hudson, author of Lowborn
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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
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Phenomenal. It’s been ages since I read a book so funny, visceral, or powerful.
David Whitehouse, author of Bed
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Details
- Author
- Graeme Armstrong
- Narrator
- Graeme Armstrong
- Duration
- 10 hours 33 minutes
- Release Date
- 25 June 2020
- ISBN
- 9781529017359
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Pan Macmillan
- Genre
- Street fiction / urban fiction, Biographical fiction / autobiographical fiction, Narrative theme: coming of age, Narrative theme: social issues / social problems, Urban communities / city life
Synopsis
This audiobook is narrated with stunning authenticity by the author, Graeme Armstrong.The Times Top Ten BestsellerA Granta Best of Young British Novelist‘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’ – The Guardian‘Dialect that fizzes off the page’ – The Observer‘One of the most admired young voices in British fiction’ – The TimesScots Book o the YearWinner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask AwardListeners are loving The Young Team:'Absolutely fantastic. Enthralling from beginning to end''Seriously the best audiobook I have listened to!''This book is outstanding . . . Graeme Armstrong’s narration brings the characters to life'
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