The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong | Signed Pre-order for collection in store only.

2005. Glasgow is named Europes Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife culture. In the housing schemes of adjacent Lanarkshire, Scotlands 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. Praise for The Young Team

‘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