The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong | Signed Pre-order for collection in store only.
The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong | Signed Pre-order for collection in store only.
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.
'Raw and lyrical . . . written in a voice that recalls Irvine Welsh and Alan Warner - dialect that fizzes off the page.' - The Observer
'The Young Team is a book full of guts, power, humour and humanity. This is a community not often seen in literature, depicted by a talented writer who intimately knows that world and the truth of this is seared in every sentence.' - Kerry Hudson, author of Lowborn
'Graeme Armstrong's debut novel is an instant Scottish classic.' - The Skinny
'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, and that's valuable . . . it also offers us growth and change, even optimism for the future, in Azzy's story. -- John Self.' - The Times
'Armstrong's hard-hitting novel is Trainspotting for a new generation, as the author draws on his own experiences to tell the coming of age of a young gang member in Airdrie.' - Sarah Hughes, The Independent
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