Here Comes Trouble

Author(s): Simon Wroe

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Following his expulsion from school, seventeen-year-old dreamer Ellis Dau is sent to work with his father. His father is editor of The Chronicle, the last bastion of free speech in their strange, strange land. And it is under threat: from heavy-handed policemen, mysterious revolutionaries, and the resident Russian billionaire.


As Ellis navigates his collapsing, blacked-out city - and his feelings for the oligarch's beautiful daughter - he realises that some things are worth fighting for. But can he save his family and the newspaper fuelled only by youth, grain spirit and unrequited love?


Holden Caulfield by way of Gary Shteyngart, Ellis Dau calls to mind the narrators of Skippy Dies, Submarine and Absurdistan, but has a charm and energy which is very much his own.

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Shortlisted for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize 2017.

Simon Wroe is a freelance journalist and former chef. He writes food and culture features for The Guardian and arts reviews for The Economist. His first book, Chop Chop, was shortlisted for the 2014 Costa First Novel Award, longlisted for the Desmond Elliott Prize and won a Betty Trask Award. He was born in 1982 and lives in Camberwell, south London.

General Fields

  • : 9781474604963
  • : Orion Publishing Group, Limited
  • : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
  • : April 2017
  • : United Kingdom
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Simon Wroe
  • : Paperback
  • : 1
  • : en
  • : 320