Submarine

A funny, fresh coming-of-age story, now a Penguin EssentialMeet Oliver Tate, 15. 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 . . .

Short-listed for Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize. Long-listed for Desmond Elliott Prize.

“A brilliant first novel by a young man of ferocious comic talent”

The Times
Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age New Statesman
Brilliant . . . laugh-out-loud enjoyable. The sharpest, funniest, rudest account of a troubled teenager's coming-of-age since The Catcher in the Rye Independent
Transplants The Catcher in the Rye to south Wales . . . Dunthorne can make you laugh like you did during double physics on a wet Wednesday afternoon Observer
A richly amusing tale of mock GCSEs, sex, death and challenging vocabulary . . . Excruciatingly funny incidents and cracking gags Time Out
Excellent . . . the wonderful, Day-Glo certainties of adolescence have rarely been so brilliantly laid out Independent on Sunday
Dunthorne captures the mores of Britain today better than novelists twice his age. He is sure to write books that declare more than their vocabulary New Statesman

Joe Dunthorne was born and brought up in Swansea. He is the author of three novels and one collection of poetry, including Submarine, which has been translated into fifteen languages and made into an acclaimed film directed by Richard Ayoade, and Wild Abandon, which won the 2012 Encore Award. Children of Radium is his first work of non-fiction. He lives in London.

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