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Synopsis

It's 1990. Apartheid is crumbling, Nelson Mandela has just been released from prison and thirteen-year-old Spud Milton is about to start his first year at an elite boys-only boarding school. Cursed with embarrassingly dysfunctional parents, a nutty granny and a dormitory full of strange characters, Spud has his hands full trying to adapt to his new home. With only his wits and his diary, he takes readers on a rowdy boarding school romp full of illegal midnight swims, catastrophic cricket matches, ghostbusting escapades, girls and disastrous holidays.

South African comedian John van de Ruit invites the reader into the mind of a young boy whose eyes are being opened to love, friendship and complete insanity!

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Customer Review: 06 May 2009

Reviewer: OSB

'Spud, by John Van de Ruit, isn’t the fastest selling book in Africa’s publishing history for nothing. This uproariously hilarious story will have you in the emergency room, you’ll laugh so hard! John Milton (known to his dorm mates as Spud) is attending one of the most prestigious schools in South Africa. He’s looking forward to getting away from his lunatic parents and shrivelled up Grandma, but, little does he know that his new school chums have fallen even harder off the crazy bus than his outrageously zany family. Amongst his new friends: Mad Dog, Boggo, Gecko, Rain Man, Rambo and Fatty. Ready yourself for a wackily witty, crazily kooky, madcap adventure… Van de Ruit has written a side-splittingly riotous book which will entertain you for hours. Spud’s utterly amusing narrative of public school frolics is both amazingly funny and hugely heart warming, this is a masterpiece of a novel. Not only will this novel have you crying with laughter at every turn, it will also have you sniffling as Van de Ruit unveils his last weirdly emotional twist. Spud is a vastly lively account of comically creative schoolboy antics that will make you laugh harder than ever before. Keep a box of tissues handy, for tears both of mirth and woe.'

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