The Young Team
01 April 2021Imprint: Picador
Synopsis
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,...
Details
01 April 2021400 pages
9781529017366Imprint: Picador
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
