<p><b><i>The Times </i>top ten bestseller</b><br><b>Granta Best of Young British Novelists 2023</b><br><b>Scots Book o the Year 2021<br>Winner of the Somerset Maugham Award & Betty Trask Award 2021</b><br><br><b>‘<i>Trainspotting</i> for a new generation’</b><b> – </b><b><i>Independent</i></b><br><b>‘An instant Scottish classic’</b><b> – </b><b><i>The Skinny</i></b><br><br>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.<br><br>2004. Azzy Williams joins the Young Team [YTP]. A brutal gang conflict with thei
