Spud Category_SCIENCE Love and loss

Love and loss

and outer suburbia

Rankin has taken the police procedural and transformed into an epic character study of a man and his city

Minor Black Figures is an involving and tender portrait of loneliness and connection

It is a gentle

Spud Category_SCIENCE Love and lossSpud Meet thirteen year old John 'Spud' Milton as he takes his first hilarious steps towards manhood in this wickedly funny, yet heart warming debut novel. 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,