The Young Team (Paperback)

'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

'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 and The Long Forgotten

'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

'[A] gripping debut novel . . . [Armstrong] is quite a phenomenon . . . one of the most admired young voices in British fiction.' - Mike Wade, 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