Penguin Random House South Africa

Categories: Fiction, Graphic Novels, Local Fiction, Teen
ISBN: 9780143025207
Published: April 2007
Page Extent: 352
Format: Paperback
RRP 280.00

Spud – The Madness Continues …

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The year is 1991, and Spud Milton's long walk to manhood is still creeping along at an unnervingly slow pace. Approaching the ripe old age of fifteen and still with no signs of the much anticipated ball-drop, Spud is coming to terms with the fact that he may well be a freak of nature. With a mother hell-bent on emigrating, a father making a killing out of selling homemade moonshine, and a demented grandmother called Wombat, the new year seems to offer little except extreme embarrassment and more mortifying Milton madness. But Spud is returning to a boarding school where he is no longer the youngest or the smallest. His dormitory mates, known as the Crazy Eight, have an unusual new member and his house has a new clutch of first years (the Normal Seven). If Spud thinks his...

About the Author

John van de Ruit

John van de Ruit

John van de Ruit is an actor, playwright and author who was educated at Michaelhouse and received a Masters degree in Drama and Performance studies from the University of KwaZulu-Natal.

His side-splitting Spud series smashed South Africa fiction records and was turned into a series of films starring John Cleese and Troye Sivan.

The books in order are:
Spud
Spud-The Madness Continues
Spud-Learning to Fly
Spud – Exit, Pursued by a Bear

http://www.spudbooks.co.za

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