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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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- Michael Ward
- 09-07-20
Unreal
Best audiobook I've ever heard, gripping, funny, emotional, relatable and extremely well written
Top notch
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- Bryan Clark
- 06-07-20
Young Team in yer area!
Seriously the best audiobook i have listened to! Im not a great reader so i opt for audiobooks and it just doesnt get any beter than this.
What a performace from the Graeme Armstrong. Felt like i was right in about it with him!
The Young Team has set the bar so high i feel whatever i listen to next is going to fall flat on its face.
Hope to see this on the big screen!!
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- James
- 09-07-20
brilliant !!
what a book , loved it from start to finish a modern day scheme trainspotting . brilliant work mate keep it up young team ya bam!!!
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- aidan m.
- 05-08-21
Amazing
Outstanding! . I was in goosebumps when reading this and didnt want it to finish. This generation's Trainspotting.
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- Pauline
- 06-04-21
Game changer - Outstanding!
I hope this author realises the potential he has to change so many young lives! I've never read a book that is so relatable to the modern Scot's generations - the East coast included! I have nothing but respect & admiration for this author. I wish him all the best & would seriously recommend this book. I wish I could hand out copies down the shopping centre in the hope it would make a difference. However, my guess is that this book needs to be adapted to film to make a real difference!
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- Amazon Customer
- 28-11-21
Great Scottish Read
Enjoyed from the start but had been expecting a a twist that never came. However, kept me hooked right to the end.
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- Mr Christopher Boyd
- 08-04-21
Can’t rate this book highly enough
This book is outstanding. The vivid portrayal of a young male growing up in working class West of Scotland is just magnificent, and something I could completely relate to. The book has depth and the way the characters are developed is superb. Graeme Armstrong’s narration brings the characters to life. He’s excellent. The local dialect and prolific swearing may not be to everyone’s liking, but it’s necessary to depict exactly how life is on the streets. Fantastic book. I can’t wait for Graeme Armstrong’s next offering!
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- Anonymous User
- 08-03-21
Yolt el san
Loved it, even better listening to the audiobook and hearing the Airdrie accent and terminology like doft and yolt. You can tell he's lived the life and hearing the references to early 2000s West of Scotland young team culture brings back the memories
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- andrew
- 26-06-22
The tale of every young man who grew up in west of Scotland 1990s- 2000s
Absolutely moving story not unlike any other tale from the young teams of Scotland
Put descriptively into a tale that will make anyone who’s lived this go through the motions again
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- N Keltie
- 15-09-22
Amazing
Love the book! And the audio! Superb! Definitely took me back to my younger time, seeing and hearing many similar stories.
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