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The Young Team
- Narrated by: Graeme Armstrong
- Length: 10 hrs and 33 mins
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Summary
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
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.
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- Amazon Customer
- 14-09-20
Brutal but brilliant book.
A tough listen at times, with the harsh reality of life, but well written and crafted throughout. One of the best books I’ve listened to. Couldn’t recommend it more.
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- David Hyatt
- 07-10-20
Fantastic Debut Novel
Great story, perfectly and authentically narrated. Nice one Graeme, can't wait for your next book!
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- Anonymous User
- 27-10-20
Eazyyyyy \:D/
total nostalgia fae the get go quality book cant wait for your next wan mate
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- KC
- 02-03-21
Hard hitting & Violent!
I nearly gave up a couple of times listening to this book as I struggled with the vocabulary, slang & scots dialect at times. The content is about a young man trying to break free of drugs, violence & senseless postcode gang conflict. Whilst trying hard to make something of his life. A good nostalgic insight into lost youth but at times the book felt clichéd.
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- Anonymous User
- 19-08-21
Brilliant 👏
Had me gripped start to finish, could relate to a lot of it.
i was also at that fantazia 🕺
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- James breslin
- 11-01-22
Strongly related to this story on many levels
Fantastic story from start to finish having been in many same situations as Azzy.
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- Cob20
- 19-02-22
Fantastic.
So unbelievably brilliant. Gritty, real, hilarious in places, depressive in others and down right sad in others.
I couldnt stop listening to this. Parked in the car at work, late, so I could hear just one last bit.
The narration by Graeme is brilliantly done too and I'm 100% sure that this gives the audiobook a massive advantage to the written version.
Well done! This will stay with me for a long time and one I will come back to and recommend to many.
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- Anonymous User
- 30-12-22
Excellent story of life in around gang culture
Fantastic story of life around Scotland’s youth gang culture and the struggles to escape it. You can tell the author is drawing on his own lived experiences .
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- Paul Kyprianou
- 13-12-22
C’mon on them
Flashback to my youth and early twenties. Took a bit of time to get into it, but once there it was compulsive listening.
Wish you well ma man 💪🏻
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- Ken MacLean
- 30-06-23
Stunning book
Although I’m from east coast in Scotland and older than the protagonist- it’s a very familiar story and full of relatable characters. I’d highly recommend this book to anyone that looks at working class people in Scotland ( to be fair anywhere in the UK) and wonders why they live the life they do. A lot of the time, there’s no other option.
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