It’s 1986, and 19-year-old Jonathan gets quite a culture shock when he leaves home to start his First year teacher training at Derbyshire College of Higher Education. Living in a large white (unmissable) student house full of lads, ranging from a posh boy from Kent to a northerner with anger issues, he must negotiate the perils of student life, which include seven-legged pub crawls in the dead of winter, fishnapping raids and cereals in the bedsheets, all at the same time as trying to woo a pretty blonde from Rochdale.
Set in a time when cassette players were cool, contact with home was a red phonebox, but alcohol, lingerie and high jinx were still the order of the day, First Years: Piranhas in the Bedroom is written with a great British dry wit. Its nostalgia for all things 80s as well as its “will-they-won’t-they” romantic comedy gives it a really broad appeal: The Young Ones meets High Fidelity.
A wonderful book for all avid readers. Not just a football story, a story we’ve all experienced… we have all been teenagers. Pure genius by the author.
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N.P.
European Champions
the book took you on a roller coaster ride of defending our League Title to winning the ultimate European Club prize. With characters you can relate to on the way and added real headline events of that period. A book for all ages.
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Celina
Two wonderful reads!
Just 14 and Just 15 are two brilliant reads.
Evoking the early 1980's, teenage angst, the highs and lows and pleasure and pain of school days these books take you right back to that time. It doesn't matter if you follow 'the Villa' or you don't follow any football club, you will be back to a time when you had your whole world ahead of you and anything was possible.
Both brilliant reads, with some real laugh out loud moments, cannot recommend highly enough!