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A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent

Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age

Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye

Transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales . . . Dunthorne can make you laugh like you did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon

A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags

Excellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out

Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age.  He is sure to write books that declare more than their vocabulary

Meet Oliver Tate, 15. Convinced that his father is depressed ("Depression comes in bouts. Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner") and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, "a hippy-looking twonk", he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together. Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out . . .

'Are we making a bomb?' 
'This is a trust exercise, like in drama,' she says. 
'Are we making a bomb as a trust exercise?' 
 
Fifteen-year-old Oliver Tate is terrified that his family is falling apart. He fears for his depressed father and is convinced that his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher. Deciding that it is down to him alone to save his parents' marriage, Oliver sets out on a campaign to rescue it while also embarking on an even more ambitious goal: to lose his virginity before he's sixteen to the seductive but slightly pyromaniacal Jordana . . . 
 
'The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming of age since The Catcher in the Rye' Independent 
 
'A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent' The Times

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, and Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London. 
 
www.joedunthorne.com

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A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent

Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age

Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye

Transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales . . . Dunthorne can make you laugh like you did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon

A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags

Excellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out

Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age. He is sure to write books that declare more than their vocabulary

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