11 Top literary fiction books like The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong

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The Young Team

By: Graeme Armstrong

4.49

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult…

If you liked the literary fiction plot in The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong , here is a list of 11 books like this:

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1. Hings

By: Chris McQueer

4.10

Format: 224 pages, Paperback

From the streets of working class Scotland, and on occasion, a little beyond our solar system, come… read more

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  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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2. Maggie & Me

By: Damian Barr

4.12

Format: 245 pages, Paperback

BBC Radio 4 Book of the Week, Winner of the Stonewall Award and The Sunday Times Memoir of the Yea… read more

Similar categories in Damian Barr's Maggie & Me book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • scotland
  • audiobook
"There's no place like home. No place safer. No place scarier."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"Maggie, tou made it possible -but not probably for me to be the man I am now."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"Reading is an act of radical empathy: turning the page instead of turning away."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

"The second time I try to kill a man I'm fourteen. Killing a man seems a very grown-up thing to do - like writing in Biro."

-Damian Barr, Maggie & Me

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3. Poverty Safari

By: Darren McGarvey

3.87

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

People from deprived communities all around Britain feel misunderstood and unheard. Darren McGarvey… read more

Similar categories in Darren McGarvey's Poverty Safari book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • scotland
Cover of Glue by Irvine Welsh

4. Glue

By: Irvine Welsh

3.31

Format: None pages, Paperback

Glue is the story of four boys growing up in the Edinburgh schemes, and about the loyalties, the ex… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's Glue book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
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5. Porno

By: Irvine Welsh

3.31

Format: None pages,

Diez anos despues de Trainspotting, Sick Boy esta en franca decadencia. Acaba de dejar su piso en u… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's Porno book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • crime
Cover of Marabou Stork Nightmares by Irvine Welsh

6. Marabou Stork Nightmares

By: Irvine Welsh

4.23

Format: 128 pages, Paperback

The acclaimed author of the cult classics Trainspottingand The Acid House, Irvine Welsh has been ha… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's Marabou Stork Nightmares book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • novels
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary

7. Trainspotting

By: Irvine Welsh , None

3.87

Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback

Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more

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8. And the Land Lay Still

By: James Robertson

4.17

Format: 427 pages, Hardcover

Michael Pendreich is curating an exhibition of photographs by his late, celebrated father Angus for… read more

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9. Close to Home

By: Michael Magee

4.06

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

While growing up in West Belfast, Sean does every­thing he's supposed to do. He works hard, he stud… read more

Similar categories in Michael Magee's Close to Home book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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10. Young Mungo

By: Douglas Stuart

4.38

Format: 390 pages, Hardcover

Growing up in a housing estate in Glasgow, Mungo and James are born under different stars--Mungo a … read more

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  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
"It was a nothing that felt like an everything."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"He hadn’t known that the sky could hold so many hues – or he hadn’t paid it any mind before. Did anyone in Glasgow look up?"

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"Mungo watched as his siblings gathered up their belongings. He saw them with an unusual clarity. It was already over for them. It would never be over for him. He just had no one to tell."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

"They had crossed this line a day or two before. They had wandered from timid tenderness to affection wrapped in insults. It was a lovely place for two boys to be: honest, exciting, immature."

-Douglas Stuart, Young Mungo

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11. Meantime

By: Frankie Boyle

3.54

Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition

Glasgow, 2015. When Valium addict Felix McAveety's best friend Marina is found murdered in the loca… read more

Similar categories in Frankie Boyle's Meantime book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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12. Mayflies

By: Andrew O'Hagan

3.96

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

From the widely renowned author Andrew O'Hagan, a heartbreaking novel of an extraordinary lifelong … read more

Similar categories in Andrew O'Hagan's Mayflies book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
"Go gently with people's pain. It's the same as yours."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He drank like that, too: as if oblivion was a perfect place to be by yourself."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"He was a friend to friendship itself and never expected people to be better than they were."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

"It wasn’t a matter to fight over: some families are made up of strangers and nothing can change it."

-Andrew O'Hagan, Mayflies

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13. Scabby Queen

By: Kirstin Innes

3.72

Format: 400 pages, Hardcover

Three days before her fifty-first birthday, Clio Campbell - one-hit-wonder, political activist, lif… read more

Similar categories in Kirstin Innes's Scabby Queen book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • audiobook
"At what point did the policeman stop? When he put his cock in? Whose was the sperm that had fathered her child? Was that erection, that constant need to get her knickers off all part of the performan…"

-Kirstin Innes, Scabby Queen

Cover of Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) by Callum McSorley

14. Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1)

By: Callum McSorley

4.10

Format: 350 pages, Kindle Edition

Half the Glasgow polis think DI Alison McCoist is bent. The other half just think she's a fuck-up. … read more

Similar categories in Callum McSorley's Squeaky Clean (Squeaky Clean, #1) book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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15. Paper Cup

By: Karen Campbell

4.11

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

What if going back means you could begin again? Rocked by a terrible accident, homeless Kelly ne… read more

Similar categories in Karen Campbell's Paper Cup book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • audiobook
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16. O Brother

By: John Niven

4.64

Format: 385 pages, Kindle Edition

John Niven’s little brother Gary was fearless, popular, stubborn, handsome, hilarious and sometimes… read more

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  • audiobook
"My mother can hold her own where foreign words are involved. The simple duo-syllable 'croissant' comes out variously as 'craw-sank', 'crass-ant', or 'crah-sint', the word seeming to have no business …"

-John Niven, O Brother

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17. The Young Team

By: Graeme Armstrong

4.49

Format: 386 pages, Hardcover

2005. Glasgow is named Europe’s Murder Capital, driven by a violent territorial gang and knife cult… read more

Similar categories in Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • coming of age
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
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18. The Long Knives

By: Irvine Welsh

3.82

Format: 384 pages, Paperback

Justice can be a blunt instrument "Men like him usually tell the story. In business. Politics. Medi… read more

Similar categories in Irvine Welsh's The Long Knives book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • crime
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • audiobook
"We're all confused youths, pal. We just get better at covering it up."

-Irvine Welsh, The Long Knives

Cover of A Glasgow Kiss by Sophie Gravia

19. A Glasgow Kiss

By: Sophie Gravia

3.86

Format: 292 pages, Kindle Edition

Meet Zara, a young, single girl struggling her way through life in the bustling city. She has almos… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gravia's A Glasgow Kiss book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"It's funny how I searched my entire life for someone to complete me, and in the end, the only person I needed was myself."

-Sophie Gravia, A Glasgow Kiss

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20. Who They Was

By: Gabriel Krauze

4.03

Format: 336 pages, Hardcover

An astonishing, visceral autobiographical novel about a young man straddling two cultures: the univ… read more

Similar categories in Gabriel Krauze's Who They Was book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • british literature
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • crime
  • audiobook
"It's a terrible thing trying to love someone who can't teach you anything."

-Gabriel Krauze, Who They Was

Cover of Ginger and Me by Elissa Soave

21. Ginger and Me

By: Elissa Soave

3.86

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

The debut novel from the winner of the Primadonna Prize. Wendy is nineteen and living alone.All… read more

Similar categories in Elissa Soave's Ginger and Me book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • coming of age
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
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22. For the Good Times

By: David Keenan

4.01

Format: 348 pages, Paperback

Sammy and his three friends live in the Ardoyne, an impoverished, predominantly Catholic area of No… read more

Similar categories in David Keenan's For the Good Times book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • british literature
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • 21st century
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23. Glasgow Boys

By: Margaret McDonald

4.39

Format: 350 pages, Paperback

A striking debut exploring the power of identity, community and the Scottish working class. This co… read more

Similar categories in Margaret McDonald's Glasgow Boys book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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24. Duck Feet

By: Ely Percy

4.52

Format: 391 pages, Paperback

'Duck Feet' is a coming-of-age novel, set in the mid-noughties in Renfrew and Paisley, Scotland. D… read more

Similar categories in Ely Percy's Duck Feet book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • coming of age
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
Cover of The Black Dog by Kevin Bridges

25. The Black Dog

By: Kevin Bridges

3.60

Format: 400 pages, Kindle Edition

THE BLACK DOG is the exciting debut novel from one of Britain's most-loved comedians, Kevin Bridges… read more

Similar categories in Kevin Bridges's The Black Dog book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • crime
  • fiction
  • contemporary
"There’s too much pressure on folk nowadays to try and fully eradicate any form of sadness…"

-Kevin Bridges, The Black Dog

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26. The Voids

By: Ryan O’Connor

3.91

Format: 288 pages, Hardcover

‘After a couple of weeks, I found myself standing outside the voids in the middle of the night list… read more

Similar categories in Ryan O’Connor's The Voids book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
  • novels
  • audiobook
Cover of Meet Me in Milan by Sophie Gravia

27. Meet Me in Milan

By: Sophie Gravia

4.00

Format: 342 pages, Kindle Edition

The laugh-out-loud summer read you need in your life, from bestselling author Sophie Gravia. Zar… read more

Similar categories in Sophie Gravia's Meet Me in Milan book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • fiction
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28. Daisy on the Outer Line

By: Ross Sayers

4.35

Format: 372 pages, Paperback

Life, Death & Time Travel on the Glasgow Subway. After selfish student Daisy makes a scene at he… read more

Similar categories in Ross Sayers's Daisy on the Outer Line book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary

29. What Happens in Dubai

By: Sophie Gravia

3.86

Format: 360 pages, Kindle Edition

THE TOP TEN AMAZON BESTSELLEREveryone's favourite Glaswegian girl is back!After having her heart we… read more

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30. Happiness Is Wasted on Me

By: Kirkland Ciccone

4.21

Format: 288 pages, Paperback

Cumbernauld was built to be the town of the future...that is, if the future looked like a really ru… read more

Similar categories in Kirkland Ciccone's Happiness Is Wasted on Me book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • literary fiction
  • scotland
  • fiction
  • contemporary
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31. Only Here, Only Now

By: Tom Newlands

4.42

Format: 368 pages, Hardcover

A brilliant new talent writing from lived experience makes his debut with this irresistible and ori… read more

Similar categories in Tom Newlands's Only Here, Only Now book and Graeme Armstrong's The Young Team

  • coming of age
  • scotland
  • fiction

25 Top fiction books like The Young Team by Graeme Armstrong

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Hings

Chris McQueer

4.10

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Glue

Irvine Welsh

3.31

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Porno

Irvine Welsh

3.31

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Marabou Stork Nightmares

Irvine Welsh

4.23

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The Long Drop

Denise Mina

3.39

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A Heart Full of Headstones (Inspector Rebus, #24)

Ian Rankin

4.20

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Meantime

Frankie Boyle

3.54

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The Second Cut

Louise Welsh

3.96

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