Reading Roundup May 2021

It’s over twenty degrees in Scotland. Go to the park. Take a book. One of these:

The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong (2020, Picador)

I’m gonna be straight here from the off: I was a 00’s-era grunger in high school. Band hoodies, ludicrously baggy jeans, moon boot skate shoes, questionable taste for rap metal, the whole thing. To me and the people I hung out with, the crowd with peaked hats pointing up at the sky, Berghaus jackets, young team menjies on their school bags were folk we jus...