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

Readers are loving The Young Team:

'This is quite possibly the best book I've ever read... an absolute triumph'
'Shockingly brilliant'
'Poetic and powerful... brilliantly written'
'From the first page I knew this book would be phenomenal... and it didn't disappoint!'

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• Publication Date: March 5, 2020
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• Print Length: 401 Pages
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