Submarine (Penguin Books)

'Excellent... The wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out' Independent on SundayMeet Oliver Tate, fifteen years old. Convinced that his father is depressed ('Depression comes in bouts.

Like boxing. Dad is in the blue corner') and his mother is having an affair with her capoeira teacher, ('a hippy-looking twonk'), he embarks on a hilariously misguided campaign to bring the family back together.

Meanwhile, he is also trying to lose his virginity - before he turns sixteeen - to his pyromaniac girlfriend Jordana. Will Oliver succeed in either aim? Submerge yourself in Submarine and find out...'A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary...

Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags' Time Out'Perfectly pitched... Transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales... Dunthorne can make you laugh like did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon' Observer'A brilliant first novel aby a young man of ferocious comic talent' The Times